Acantopsis
Acantopsis is a genus of freshwater fishes, commonly known as horseface loaches or banana-root fishes, in the family Cobitidae. Fishes of the genus Acantopsis inhabit sandy riverbeds throughout Southeast Asia and are most diverse in the Mekong River in Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia wherein five species are known to occur. The common horseface loach, A. rungthipae, is popular in the aquarium trade.
Species
The species in the genus are:Acantopsis bruinen Boyd, So, Thach & Page, 2018 Acantopsis dialuzona van Hasselt, 1823 Acantopsis dinema Boyd & Page, 2017 Acantopsis ioa Boyd & Page, 2017 Acantopsis multistigmatus Vishwanath & Laisram, 2005 Acantopsis octoactinotos Siebert, 1991 Acantopsis rungthipae Boyd, Nithirojpakdee & Page, 2017 Acantopsis spectabilis Acantopsis thiemmedhi Sontirat, 1999Acantopsis choirorhynchos is considered a synonym of A. dialuzona.