Crossocheilus

Crossocheilus, also known as the fringe barbs, flying foxes, or "algae eaters", is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is distributed in China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand in Asia.^[1] These fish occur in several types of habitat, often fast-flowing rivers with rocky bottoms.^[2]

Two C. oblongus resting on a rock.

Crossocheilus
Siamese algae eater (Crossocheilus oblongus)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Cyprinidae
Subfamily:	Labeoninae
Genus:	Crossocheilus Kuhl & van Hasselt, 1823
Type species
Crossocheilus oblongus Kuhl & van Hasselt, 1823
Synonyms
Crossocheilichthys Bleeker, 1859 Holotylognathus Fowler, 1934

Species

These are the currently recognized species in this genus:^[1][3]

• Crossocheilus atrilimes Kottelat, 2000
• Crossocheilus cobitis (Bleeker, 1854)
• Crossocheilus elegans Kottelat & H. H. Tan, 2011 ^[2]
• Crossocheilus gnathopogon M. C. W. Weber & de Beaufort, 1916
• Crossocheilus langei Bleeker, 1860
• Crossocheilus microstoma Ciccotto & Page, 2017
• Crossocheilus nigriloba Popta, 1904
• Crossocheilus oblongus Kuhl & van Hasselt, 1823
• Crossocheilus obscurus H. H. Tan & Kottelat, 2009 ^[4]
• Crossocheilus reticulatus (Fowler, 1934)
• Crossocheilus tchangi Fowler, 1935

References

1. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Crossocheilus". FishBase. January 2016 version.
2. Kottelat, M. & Tan, H.H. (2011): Crossocheilus elegans, a new species of fish from northern Borneo (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Archived 2012-02-08 at the Wayback Machine Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 59 (2): 195-199.
3. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Crossocheilus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
4. Tan, H.H. & Kottelat, M. (2009): The fishes of the Batang Hari drainage, Sumatra, with description of six new species. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 20 (1): 13-69.

Further reading

Ciccotto, et al. 2017. (2017). "Revision of the Cyprinid Genus Crossocheilus (Tribe Labeonini) with Description of a New Species" (PDF). Copeia. 105 (2): 269–292. doi:10.1643/CI-16-538. JSTOR 26872434. S2CID 90056241.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)