Ellopostoma is a small genus of loaches native to Southeast Asia.[ This is the only genus in the family Ellopostomatidae, having been confirmed as being in a family of its own by Maurice Kottelat in his review of the loaches in 2012.][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.]
Species
The currently recognized species in this genus are:
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Ellopostoma megalomycter (Vaillant, 1902)
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Ellopostoma mystax H. H. Tan & K. K. P. Lim, 2002 (enigmatic loach)
