Claea

Claea
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Nemacheilidae
Genus:
Kottelat, 2011
Synonyms

Oreias Sauvage, 1874

Claea is a genus of stone loaches.

Before recent expansion, it was formerly a monotypic genus.[1] Other former members (C. sonlaensis and C. trilineatus) are now in Schistura.[2] The former subspecies C. d. microphthalma is now Triplophysa microphthalma, along with Triplophysa niulanjiangensis[3]

The genus name is an allusion to Claea, an Oread mountain nymph from Greek mythology.[3]

Species

There are currently four valid species:[4]

  • Claea dabryi (Sauvage, 1874)
  • Claea minibarba Zhang, Luo, Huang & Zhang, 2024
  • Claea scet Lei, He, Huang, Zhou & He, 2025
  • Claea wulongensis (Chen, Sheraliev, Shu & Peng, 2021

References

  1. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Claea". FishBase. June 2011 version.
  2. ^ Bailly, Nicolas (2014). "Claea Kottelat, 2011". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species.
  3. ^ a b "Family NEMACHEILIDAE Regan 1911 (Stone or Brook Loaches)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. 2 February 2024. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  4. ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Claea". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 9 May 2025.