Claea
Genus of fish
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Claea is a genus of stone loaches.
| Claea | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Nemacheilidae |
| Genus: | Claea Kottelat, 2011 |
| Synonyms | |
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Oreias Sauvage, 1874 | |
Before recent expansion, it was formerly a monotypic genus.[1] Other former members (C. sonlaensis and C. trilineatus) are now in Schistura.[2] The former subspecies C. d. microphthalma is now Triplophysa microphthalma, along with Triplophysa niulanjiangensis[3]
The genus name is an allusion to Claea, an Oread mountain nymph from Greek mythology.[3]
Species
There are currently four valid species:[4]
- Claea dabryi (Sauvage, 1874)
- Claea minibarba Zhang, Luo, Huang & Zhang, 2024
- Claea scet Lei, He, Huang, Zhou & He, 2025
- Claea wulongensis (Chen, Sheraliev, Shu & Peng, 2021
