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Bhavania is a small genus of loaches of the family Balitoridae.

Bhavania
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Balitoridae
Genus:	Bhavania Hora, 1920
Type species
Platycara australis Jerdon, 1849

Species

There is one species definitely assigned to this genus. The placement of B. arunachalensis within the family is uncertain.[1] It is currently included here pending further studies.

• Bhavania arunachalensis Nath, Dam, Bhutia, Dey & D. N. Das, 2007 (this species is species inquirenda and incertae sedis within Balitoridae)
• Bhavania australis (Jerdon, 1849) (Western Ghat loach)

References

• Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Bhavania in FishBase. June 2011 version.

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