Аннотация:Freshwater loaches of the subfamily Nemacheilinae are relatively common fishes in Southeast Asia, important ecologically as well as in the lucrative aquarium trade. They are also among the most diverse of fishes, with over 460 published names. Not surprisingly, the same diversity has created much confusion in their systematics. Even the spelling of the nominate genus has only recently been standardised, vacillating between Nemacheilus, Noemacheilus and Nemachilus. The same is true of their higher classification. Until Sawada's (1982) study, they had been classified in the Cobitidae, but his study indicated closer relationships with the Balitoridae (his Homalopteridae) (Kottelat, 1988).
