Pangio

Genus of fishes

Pangio

Kuhli loach in an aquarium, commonly identified as P. kuhlii, but likely P. semicincta[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Actinopterygii
Order:  | Cypriniformes
Family:  | Cobitidae
Genus:  | Pangio
Blyth, 1860
Type species
Cobitis cinnamomea

McClelland 1839

Species

See text.

Pangio is a genus of small Asian freshwater fish in the true loach family Cobitidae. In earlier taxonomic schemes it was known as Acanthophthalmus. The "kuhli loach" is well-known in the aquarium trade and commonly identified as P. kuhlii, but most individuals actually appear to be P. semicincta.[1]

The type species is Cobitis cinnamomea McClelland 1839, now known as Pangio pangia.[2]

These fish are best represented in Southeast Asia where all but five of the species live,[3][4] including the Greater Sunda Islands with sixteen species. The five species found outside Southeast Asia are from India and Myanmar.[3][5] They inhabit a wide range of mostly calm waters such as streams, swamps (often peat swamps) and backwaters, but there are also species in fast-flowing waters,[3] and one, P. bhujia, lives underground.[4]

## Species[edit]

Pangio oblonga

There are currently 33 recognized species in this genus:[6]

* Pangio agma (M. E. Burridge, 1992)
* Pangio alcoides Kottelat & K. K. P. Lim, 1993
* Pangio alternans Kottelat & K. K. P. Lim, 1993
* Pangio ammophila Britz, Anvar Ali & Raghavan, 2012[3]
* Pangio anguillaris (Vaillant, 1902)
* Pangio apoda Britz & Maclaine, 2007
* Pangio atactos H. H. Tan & Kottelat, 2009
* Pangio bhujia Anoop et al., 2019[4]
* Pangio pathala Sundar, Remya L; Arjun, C.P.; Sidharthan, Arya; Dahanukar, Neelesh; Raghavan, Rajeev[7]
* Pangio bitaimac H. H. Tan & Kottelat, 2009
* Pangio cuneovirgata (Raut, 1957)
* Pangio doriae (Perugia, 1892)
* Pangio elongata Britz & Maclaine, 2007
* Pangio filinaris Kottelat & K. K. P. Lim, 1993
* Pangio fusca (Blyth, 1860)
* Pangio goaensis (Tilak, 1972) (Indian coolie-loach)
* Pangio incognito Kottelat & K. K. P. Lim, 1993
* Pangio kuhlii (Valenciennes, 1846) (Kuhli loach, coolie loach)
* Pangio lidi Hadiaty & Kottelat, 2009
* Pangio longimanus Britz & Kottelat, 2010
* Pangio longipinnis (Menon, 1992)
* Pangio lumbriciformis Britz & Maclaine, 2007
* Pangio malayana (Tweedie, 1956)
* Pangio mariarum (Inger & P. K. Chin, 1962)
* Pangio muraeniformis (de Beaufort, 1933)
* Pangio myersi (Harry, 1949)
* Pangio oblonga (Valenciennes, 1846) (Java loach)
* Pangio pangia (F. Hamilton, 1822)
* Pangio piperata Kottelat & K. K. P. Lim, 1993
* Pangio pulla Kottelat & K. K. P. Lim, 1993
* Pangio robiginosa (Raut, 1957)
* Pangio semicincta (Fraser-Brunner, 1940)
* Pangio shelfordii (Popta, 1903) (Borneo loach)
* Pangio signicauda Britz & Maclaine, 2007
* Pangio superba (T. R. Roberts, 1989)

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b "Pangio semicincta". SeriouslyFish. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
2. ^ "Pangio". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
3. ^ a b c d Britz, R., Ali, A. & Raghavan, R. (2012): Pangio ammophila, a new species of eel-loach from Karnataka, southern India (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 23 (1): 45-50.
4. ^ a b c Anoop, V.K.; R. Britz; C.P. Arjun; N. Dahanukar; R. Raghavan (2019). "Pangio bhujia, A New, Peculiar Species of Miniature Subterranean Eel Loach Lacking Dorsal and Pelvic Fins from India (Teleostei: Cobitidae)". Zootaxa. 4683 (1): 144–150. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4683.1.8. PMID 31715940.
5. ^ Clarke, Matt (2007-03-15). "Four new kuhli loaches described". Practical Fishkeeping magazine. Retrieved 2011-04-25.
6. ^ Kottelat, M. (2012): Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. No. 26: 1-199.
7. ^ Sundar, Remya L; Arjun, C.P.; Sidharthan, Arya; Dahanukar, Neelesh; Raghavan, Rajeev (2022-05-16). "A new diminutive subterranean eel loach species of the genus Pangio (Teleostei: Cobitidae) from Southern India". Zootaxa. 5138 (1): 89–97. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5138.1.9. ISSN 1175-5334.

* "Pangio". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved Apr 27, 2007.

Taxon identifiers

Pangio|

* Wikidata: Q774073
* Wikispecies: Pangio
* ADW: Pangio
* BOLD: 106075
* CoL: 6D7R
* EoL: 25155
* GBIF: 2367939
* iNaturalist: 90644
* IRMNG: 1290657
* ITIS: 638916
* NCBI: 127971
* Open Tree of Life: 438248
* uBio: 117015
* WoRMS: 270173