Ellopostoma is a small genus of loaches native to Southeast Asia. This is the only genus in the family Ellopostomatidae, having been confirmed as being in a family of its own by M. Kottelat in his review of the loaches in 2012.Kottelat, M. (2012): Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. No. 26: 1-199.
Species The currently recognized species in this genus are: Ellopostoma megalomycter (Vaillant, 1902) Ellopostoma mystax H. H. Tan & K. K. P. Lim, 2002 (enigmatic loach)
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