Hemimyzon taitungensis

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| image = Taitung river loach imported from iNaturalist photo 118061859 on 21 April 2022.jpg

| name = Taitung river loach

| status = VU | status_system = IUCN2.3

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Kottelat, M. |date=1996 |title=Hemimyzon taitungensis |volume=1996 |page=e.T9890A13025401 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T9890A13025401.en |access-date=16 November 2021}}

| taxon = Hemimyzon taitungensis

| authority = C. S. Tzeng & S. C. Shen, 1982

}}

Hemimyzon taitungensis (common name: Taitung river loach, in Chinese 臺東間爬岩鰍, 台東間吸鰍, or 石貼仔) is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Balitoridae that is endemic to Taiwan.{{FishBase |genus=Hemimyzon |species=taitungensis |month=October |year=2015}}{{cite web |url=http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatget.asp?spid=8493 |title=Catalog of Fishes |editor=Eschmeyer, W. N. |editor2=R. Fricke |date=4 January 2016 |publisher=California Academy of Sciences |accessdate=12 January 2016}} It is a small (length {{convert|12|cm|abbr=on}}) freshwater fish currently known only from running waters of the Central Mountain Range of Taiwan at high and middle elevations.{{cite web |url=http://fishdb.sinica.edu.tw/eng/species.php?id=380992 |title=Hemimyzon taitungensis |author=K. T. Shao |work=The Fish Database of Taiwan. WWW Web electronic publication, version 2009/1 |publisher= |accessdate=16 November 2012}} In contrast to H. formosanus, it appears to be a well-defined species with no signs of strong genetic structuring suggestive of cryptic species.{{Cite journal| last = Wang | first = T. Y. |author2=T. Y. Liao |author3=C. S. Tzeng | year = 2007 | title = Phylogeography of the Taiwanese endemic hillstream loaches, Hemimyzon formosanus and H. taitungensis (Cypriniformes: Balitoridae) | journal = Zoological Studies | volume = 46 | pages = 547–560 |url=http://zoolstud.sinica.edu.tw/Journals/46.5/547.pdf}}