Lefua

Lefua is a genus of stone loaches native to East Asia. Members of this genus possess barbels around their mouths (usually three pairs) and nostrils (usually one pair). They generally have column-shaped bodies and are good swimmers.^[1]

Lefua
Lefua echigonia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Nemacheilidae
Genus:	Lefua Herzenstein, 1888
Type species
Lefua pleskei Herzenstein, 1888
Synonyms
Elxis Jordan & Fowler, 1903 Octonema Herzenstein, 1888

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 hoffmanni Herre, 1932
• Lefua nikkonis (D. S. Jordan & Fowler, 1903) (ainu eight barbeled loach)
• 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)

References

1. Nakajima, J. (2017). LOACHES OF JAPAN (Natural History and Culture) (3rd ed.). Yama-kei Publishers Co., Ltd. pp. 174–175.
2. Kottelat, M. (2012): Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). Archived 2013-02-11 at the Wayback Machine The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. No. 26: 1-199.
3. Hosoya, K. (2019). Freshwater fish of Japan. Yama-kei Publishers Co., Ltd. pp. 210–212.

Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Lefua". FishBase.