| Speonectes | |
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| Conservation status | |
 Critically endangered, possibly extinct (IUCN 3.1) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Nemacheilidae |
| Genus: | Speonectes |
| Species: | S. tiomanensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Speonectes tiomanensis (Kottelat, 1990) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Speonectes tiomanensis is a species of stone loach that is endemic to Malaysia and only known from a cave on Tioman Island. This fish reaches a length of 5.8 centimetres (2.3 in) SL. This species is the only known member of its genus, but it was formerly included in Sundoreonectes. It is the only cavefish known from Malaysia.
References
- Ahmad, A.B. (2020). "Speonectes tiomanensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T21168A89825048. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T21168A89825048.en. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
- 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.
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Sundoreonectes tiomanensis". FishBase. December 2012 version.
- Romero, A., editor (2001). The Biology of Hypogean Fishes. Developments in Environmental Biology of Fishes. ISBN 978-1402000768
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Speonectes tiomanensis | |
| Sundoreonectes tiomanensis | |
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