Lefua
Genus of fishes
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Lefua is a genus of stone loaches native to East Asia. Members of this genus possess nostrils (usually one pair) and barbels around their mouths (usually 4 pairs, with one pair being directly anterior to the nostrils). They generally have column-shaped bodies and are good swimmers.[1]
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| Lefua | |
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| Lefua echigonia | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Nemacheilidae |
| Genus: | Lefua Herzenstein, 1888 |
| Type species | |
| Lefua pleskei Herzenstein, 1888 | |
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Species
There are currently eight recognized species in this genus:[2][1][3]
- Lefua costata (Kessler, 1876) (Eightbarbel loach, Continental eight barbeled loach)
- Lefua echigonia D. S. Jordan & R. E. Richardson, 1907 (Japanese eight barbeled loach)
- Lefua nikkonis (D. S. Jordan & Fowler, 1903) (ainu eight barbeled loach)
- Lefua nishimurai (Katayama, Y., & Sawada, N. (2024) [4]
- Lefua pleskei (Herzenstein, 1888)
- Lefua sayu (Herre & S. Y. Lin, 1936)
- Lefua tokaiensis (Hosoya, Ito & Miyazaki, 2019) (tokai stream eight barbeled loach)
- Lefua torrentis (Hosoya, Ito & Miyazaki, 2018) (stream eight barbeled loach)
