Quintabarbates
| Quintabarbates | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cobitidae |
| Genus: | Quintabarbates T. R. Roberts, 2022 |
| Species: | Q. bicolor
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| Binomial name | |
| Quintabarbates bicolor T. R. Roberts, 2022
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Quintabarbates is a monospecific genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Cobitidae, the true or spiny loaches. The only species in the genus is Quintabarbates bicolor which was first formally described in 2022 by the American ichthyologist Tyson R. Roberts. This taxon is only known from a tributary of the Chindwin River in the Irrawaddy River in Myanmar.[1][2] The genus name, Quintabarbates, means "five beards", and is a reference to the five pairs of barbels. The secific name, bicolor, means "two colours", an allusion to the thick horizontal stripes of iridescent vermillion green above and below a stripe of iridescent orange on the upper body.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Cobitidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 28 November 2024.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Quintabarbates". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 28 November 2024.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf (16 November 2024). "Family COBITIDAE Swainson 1838 (Loaches)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf. Retrieved 28 November 2024.