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Here's a schematic illustration of the oral region. No barbels, as you can see.

They're not particularly colorful when alive. Very much like Acanthopsoides.

That's just the very large skin flap at the rictus (corner of the mouth). There is also an apparently undescribed species from Bangladesh:

Neoeucirrhichthys maydelli



From: Edds, DR & HH Ng, 2007. Additions to the ichthyofauna of Nepal, with a redescription of Neoeucirrhichthys maydelli (Teleostei: Cobitidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 18: 125–132.

Kottelat, M, DR Harries & GS Proudlove, 2007. Schistura papulifera, a new species of cave loach from Meghalaya, India (Teleostei: Balitoridae). Zootaxa 1393: 35–44.
Abstract

Suzawa, Y, 2006. A new loach, Cobitis shikokuensis (Teleostei: Cobitidae), from Shikoku Island, Japan. Ichthyological Research 53: 315–322. Abstract A new species of spinous loach, Cobitis shikokuensis , is described based on 297 specimens from Shikoku Island, Japan. The new species was formerly kno...

Novak, J, L Hanel, O Rican, 2006. Formosania: A replacement name for Crossostoma Sauvage, 1878 (Teleostei), a junior homonym of Crossostoma Morris & Lycett, 1851 (Gastropoda). Cybium 30: 92.

mikev wrote:Why are you rejecting the possibility that whiteheadi simply means white head?

The specific epithet does not refer to the fish having a white head. The fish is named after Peter Whitehead, a renowned ichthyologist.

Not Protomyzon, but Erromyzon.

From the color pattern, more likely Homaloptera smithi.

These are not P. anguillaris (no nasal barbels), but P. doriae (nasal barbels).

gulogulo wrote:Can I get the pdf's please?
Thank You.

I need an email address. Cannot send them into thin air.

shari wrote:I'm sure there are several of us who'd like to read them. Myself included
And thank you!

Shari, I need your email address.