Insects

• Many aquatic insects living in riffles require current to survive.
• Epeorus sylvicola, a rheophilic mayfly
  Mayfly
  Mayflies are insects which belong to the Order Ephemeroptera . They have been placed into an ancient group of insects termed the Palaeoptera, which also contains dragonflies and damselflies...
  
   species (Ephemeroptera).

Fish

• The fish family Balitoridae, also known as the hill stream loaches.
• The fish family Loricariidae
  Loricariidae
  Loricariidae is the largest family of catfish , with almost 700 species and new species being described each year. Loricariids originate from fresh water habitats of Costa Rica, Panama, and tropical and subtropical South America. These fish are noted for the bony plates covering their bodies and...
  
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• The fish family Gyrinocheilidae.

• Rheophilic cichlid genera/species.
  • The Lamena group in the genus Paretroplus
    Paretroplus
    Paretroplus is a genus of fishes in the cichlid family, all of which are endemic to lakes and rivers of Madagascar. The vast majority are threatened and restricted to the northwestern part of the island. Only P. polyactis is found in the southern half of Madagascar and only P. polyactis and P....
    
    from Madagascar
    Madagascar
    The Republic of Madagascar is an island country located in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa...
    
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  • Oxylapia polli
    Oxylapia polli
    Oxylapia polli, known locally as the songatana, is a critically endangered species of fish in the cichlid family, and the only member of its genus. It is endemic to the Marolambo Rapids in the Nosivolo River in east-central Madagascar. It is threatened by habitat loss and sedimentation caused by...
    
    from Madagascar.
  • Steatocranus
    Steatocranus
    Steatocranus is a small genus of rheophilic cichlid fish. Most are endemic to the Congo River Basin in DR Congo/Congo Brazzaville, although one species, S. irvinei, is restricted to the Volta River in Ghana....
    
    species from the Congo River Basin in Africa.
  • Teleocichla
    Teleocichla
    Teleocichla is a small genus of seven cichlid formally described species and several undescribed species, endemic to the Amazon River Basin in South America. All species are rheophilic, and highly elongated in shape...
    
    species from the Amazon Basin
    Amazon Basin
    The Amazon Basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries that drains an area of about , or roughly 40 percent of South America. The basin is located in the countries of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, and Venezuela...
    
     in South America.
  • Teleogramma
    Teleogramma
    Teleogramma is an African genus of cichlids with only four species. These dark and slender fishes barely reaches in length, and are restricted to rapids in the Congo River in DR Congo/Congo Brazzaville....
    
    species from the Congo River Basin in Africa.

• Chiloglanis neumanni
  Chiloglanis neumanni
  Chiloglanis neumanni is a species of catfish of the family Mochokidae....
  
  a freshwater catfish
  Catfish
  Catfishes are a diverse group of ray-finned fish. Named for their prominent barbels, which resemble a cat's whiskers, catfish range in size and behavior from the heaviest and longest, the Mekong giant catfish from Southeast Asia and the second longest, the wels catfish of Eurasia, to detritivores...
  
   from Lake Malawi
  Lake Malawi
  Lake Malawi , is an African Great Lake and the southernmost lake in the Great Rift Valley system of East Africa. This lake, the third largest in Africa and the eighth largest lake in the world, is located between Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania...
  
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• The Danube streber (Zingel streber), family Percidae.
• Leuciscus idus, a freshwater cyprinid
  Cyprinid
  The family Cyprinidae, from the Ancient Greek kyprînos , consists of the carps, the true minnows, and their relatives . Commonly called the carp family or the minnow family, its members are also known as cyprinids...
  
  

Amphibians

• Neurergus strauchii
  Neurergus strauchii
  Strauch's Spotted Newt is a species of salamander, more specifically a newt, in the Salamandridae family.It is found only in Turkey. Its natural habitat is in streams or small rivers, and the nearby forest or shrublands...
  
  , a newt from Turkey
• Pachytriton labiatus, a newt from China