WoRMS taxon details
Balitoridae Swainson, 1839
Balitorinae Swainson, 1839 · unaccepted
Homalopteridae · unaccepted (synonym)
- Genus Balitora Gray, 1830
- Genus Balitoropsis Smith, 1945
- Genus Crossostoma Sauvage, 1878
- Genus Formosania Oshima, 1919
- Genus Homalosoma Boulenger, 1901
- Genus Liniparhomaloptera Fang, 1935
- Genus Plesiomyzon Zheng & Chen, 1980
- Genus Pseudogastromyzon Nichols, 1925
- Genus Sinogastromyzon Fang, 1930
- Genus Sinohomaloptera Fang, 1930
- Genus Vanmanenia Hora, 1932
- Genus Bhawania accepted as Bhavania Hora, 1920 (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling)
- Genus Formosiana accepted as Formosania Oshima, 1919 (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling)
- Genus Praeformosania Fang, 1935 accepted as Homalosoma Boulenger, 1901
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Not documented
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Balitoridae Swainson, 1839. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=154177 on 2026-05-01
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Nomenclature
basis of record
Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2026). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2026., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Van Der Laan, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Fricke, R. (2014). Family-group names of Recent fishes. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3882(1): 1-230., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 [details] Available for editors 
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Balitoridae)
To Genbank (from synonym Homalopteridae)
To Genbank (from synonym Balitorinae Swainson, 1839)
To Genbank
To ITIS
To Genbank (from synonym Homalopteridae)
To Genbank (from synonym Balitorinae Swainson, 1839)
To Genbank
To ITIS
