Acantopsis is a genus of freshwater fishes, commonly known as horseface loaches or banana-root fishes, in the family Cobitidae. Fishes of the genus Acantopsis inhabit sandy riverbeds throughout Southeast Asia and are most diverse in the Mekong River in Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia wherein five species are known to occur. The common horseface loach, A. rungthipae, is popular in the aquarium trade.
Species
The species in the genus are:
- Acantopsis bruinen <small>Boyd, So, Thach & Page, 2018</small> (Polkadot horseface loach)
- Acantopsis dialuzona <small>van Hasselt, 1823</small> (Piglet horseface loach)
- Acantopsis dinema <small>Boyd & Page, 2017</small> (Peppered horseface loach)
- Acantopsis ioa <small>Boyd & Page, 2017</small> (Slender horseface loach)
- Acantopsis multistigmatus <small>Vishwanath & Laisram, 2005</small>
- Acantopsis octoactinotos <small>Siebert, 1991</small> (Dwarf horseface loach)
- Acantopsis rungthipae <small>Boyd, Nithirojpakdee & Page, 2017</small> (Common horseface loach)
- Acantopsis spectabilis <small>(Blyth, 1860)</small> (Spectacular horseface loach)
- Acantopsis thiemmedhi <small>Sontirat, 1999</small> (Blackspotted horseface loach)
Acantopsis choirorhynchos <small>(Bleeker, 1854)</small> is considered a synonym of A. dialuzona.
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