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Triplophysa xiangxiensis

(Yang, Yuan and Liao 1986) Chen, Yang and Xu 1992

Triplophysa xiangxiensis
Illustration from Weber, Proudlove and Nalbant (1998)
ORDERSUB-ORDERFAMILY
CypriniformesCobitoidei Nemacheilidae

Synonyms

Noemacheilus xiangxiensis  Yang, Yuan and Liao 1986

Country

China

Types

Holotype: HAU 8401 85.0mm "body length". Paratypes: HAU 8601‑8602 45.0mm‑67.0mm "body length", KIZ 863001.

Distribution

Known only from the type locality: Feihu Dong (= cave), north‑west Longshan County, Xiangxi, Hunan Province, China (29o29’N, 109o25’E).

Habitat

Nothing known, the specimens were collected "from the subterranean water at a depth of 20m under the ground surface".

Systematics

Chen, Yang and Xu (1992) re-examined the type specimens of this species and of Noemacheilus gejiuensis. They concluded that both were members of the genus Triplophysa because of an absence of a procesus dentiformis on the upper jaw and the presence, in males, of a raised tuberculate area below the nares and thickened tuberculate pads on the back of the pectoral fin rays. Sgouros et al. (2019) found that T. xiangxiensis is sister species to T. rosa. A good comparison of subterranean Triplophysa species is provided by Wu et al. (2018).

Conservation Status

[VU D2:2.3:1996]

(Kottelat, M. 1996. Triplophysa xiangxensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1996: http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T22202A9364418.en. Downloaded on 05 July 2017). R (IUCN 1990), R (IUCN 1993)

Museum Holdings

As above only.

Internet Resources

Genbank sequence

Key References

Yang, G., Yuan, F. and Liao, Y. Journal Article 1986 A new blind cobitidae fish from the subterranean water in Xiangxi, China
Zhu, S. Q. Book 1989 The loaches of the subfamily Nemacheilinae in China (Cypriniformes, Cobitidae)
Chen, Y.R., Yang, J.X. and Xu, G.C. Journal Article 1992 A new blind loach of Triplophysa from Yunnan Stone Forest with comments on its phylogenetic relationship
Yang, J. X. and Chen, Y. R. Journal Article 1993 The cavefishes from Jiuxiang Limestone Cave of Yunnan, China with reference to character evolutions
Zhou, W. and Cui, G. H. Journal Article 1993 Status of the scaleless species of Schistura in China, with description of a new species (Teleostei, Balitoridae)
Durand, J., Keller, N., Laumont, C. and Delprat, B. Journal Article 1996 Sur l'oeil depigmente et degenere d'un nouveau poisson des eaux souterraines de Chine (Triplophysa xiangxiensis)
He, L., Wang, X., Chen, Q. and Xiang, J. Journal Article 2006 Morphological description on Triplophysa xiangxiensis
He, G., He, L., Xu, Y., Zhang. Z and Li, X. Journal Article 2008 Study on germplasm characters of Triplophysa xiangxiensis.
Yao, Y. H., Wang, D. Q., He, L. and Yu, L. N. Journal Article 2012 Isolation and characterization of sixteen microsatellite loci of a blind cavefish, Triplophysa xiangxiensis
Kottelat, M. Journal Article 2012 Conspectus cobitidum: An inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei)
Yang,J., Chen,X., Bai,J., Fang,D., Qiu,Y., Jiang,W., Yuan,H., Bian,C., Lu,J., He,S., Pan,X., Zhang,Y., Wang,X., You,X., Wang,Y., Sun,Y., Mao,D., Liu,Y., Fan,G., Zhang,H., Chen,X., Zhang,X., Zheng,L., Wang,J., Cheng,L. Journal Article 2016 The Sinocyclocheilus cavefish genome provides insights into cave adaptation
Li, J.X. Wang, Y., Jina H.F.,Li, W.J., Yan, C.C., Yan, P.F., Zhang, X.Y., He, S.P. and Song, Z.B. Journal Article 2017 Identification of Triplophysa species from the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP) and its adjacent regions through DNA barcodes
Zhang, YH, Wang, Z, Zhang, Z, Wu, MS and Chen, JY Journal Article 2017 The complete mitochondrial genome of Triplophysa brevibarbata with phylogenetic considerations
Wang, X., Liang,C. and Zhang, E. Journal Article 2017 The complete mitochondrial genome sequence of Triplophysa xiangxiensis (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae)
Zhang, Y., Wang, Z., Zhang, Z., Wu, M.. Chen, J. and Zhao, Y. Journal Article 2018 The complete mitochondrial genome of Triplophysa brevibarba with phylogenetic consideration
Wu, W.J., He, A.Y., Yang, J.X. and Du, L.N. Journal Article 2018 Description of a new species of Triplophysa (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae) from Guizhou Province, China
Huang, T.F., Zhang, P.L., Huang, X.L., Wu, T., Gong, X.Y., Zhang, Y.X., Peng, Q.Z. and Liu, Z.X. Journal Article 2019 A new cave-dwelling blind loach, Triplophysa erythraea sp. nov. (Cypriniformes: Nemacheilidae), from Hunan Province, China.
Sgouros, K., Page, L.M., Orlofske, S.A. and Jadin, R.C. Journal Article 2019 A revised molecular phylogeny reveals polyphyly in Schistura (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Nemacheilidae)
Yang, X., Liu, H., Ma, Z., Zou, Y., Zou, M., Mao, Y., Li, X., Wang, H., Chen, T.,Wang, W. and Yang, R. Journal Article 2019 Chromosome‐level genome assembly of Triplophysa tibetana, a fish adapted to the harsh high‐altitude environment of the Tibetan Plateau
Wang, Y., Xiao, N., Wang, S., Luo, T., Yang, X., Liu, T. and Zhou, J. Journal Article 2021 The complete mitochondrial genome of a cavedwelling loach Triplophysa baotianensis (Teleostei:Nemacheilidae)
Huang, S., Zhao, M., Luo, X., Bedos, A., Wang, Y., Chocat, M., Tian, M. and Liu, W. Journal Article 2023 Feihu Dong, a new hotspot cave of subterranean biodiversity from China
He, Y. and He, D.K. Journal Article 2023 X-ray microtomography study of cranium, pectoral fin and girdle, and Weberian Apparatus development in juvenile Triplophysa stewarti (Nemacheilidae)
Wang, Y.D., Dong, X.Y. and Liu, H.B. Journal Article 2024 The complete mitochondrial genome of Triplophysa erythraea (Huang et al. 2019)(Cypriniformes, Nemacheilidae)