Metadata

Troglonectes donglanensis

Wu in Lan, Gan, Wu and Yang 2013

ORDERSUB-ORDERFAMILY
CypriniformesCobitoidei Nemacheilidae

Synonyms

None.

Country

China

Types

Only a holotype was assigned: CLJH 2010010051 45.2mm SL.

Distribution

Simeng Town (the Hongshui River), Donglan County, Guangxi, China, 24.2°N, 107.2°E.

Habitat

No details provided in the orginal description.

Systematics

There are 19 described species in the genus Troglonectes (Eschmeyer 2022), all expect one are hypogean fishes with reduced eyes, reduced pigment and reduced scales. The only epigean member of the genus is Troglonectes hechiensis Zhao, Liu, Du and Luo 2021. The epigean species is a member of a monophyletic group which also contains T. furcocaudalis, T. daqikongensis, T. jiarongensis and T. shuilongensis (Zhao, Liu, Du and Luo 2021).

Conservation Status

[NE]

Museum Holdings

As above only.

Key References

Lan, J.H., Gan, X., Wu, T.J. and Yang, J. Book 2013 Cave fishes of Guangxi, China
Waryani. B., Zhao, Y., Zhang, C., Abbasi, A.R., Ferrando, S., Dai, R., et al. Journal Article 2015 Surface architecture of the olfactory epithelium of two Chinese cave loaches (Cypriniformes: Nemacheilidae: Oreonectes).
Zhang, C.G. and Zhou, Y.H. Book 2016 Species diversity and distribution of inland fishes in China
Liu, Z., Wen, H., Hailer, F., Dong, F., Yang, Z., Liu, T., Han, L., Shi, F., Hu, Y. and Zhou, J. Journal Article 2019 Pseudogenization of Mc1r gene associated with transcriptional changes related to melanogenesis explains leucistic phenotypes in Oreonectes cavefish (Cypriniformes, Nemacheilidae)
Huang, J.Q., Yang, J., Wu, Z.Q. and Zhao, Y.H. Journal Article 2019 Oreonectes guilinensis (Teleostei, Cypriniformes, Nemacheilidae), a new loach species from Guangxi, China
Liu, Z., Qian, X., Wang, Z., Wen, H., Han, L. and Zhou, J. Journal Article 2021 First draft genome of loach (Orenectes shuilongensis; Cypriniformes: Nemacheilidae) provide insights into the evolution of cavefish
Zhao, L.-X., Liu, J.-H., Du, L.N. and Luo, F.G. Journal Article 2021 A new loach species of Troglonectes (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae) from Guangxi, China