Cobitis is a genus of small freshwater fish in the family Cobitidae from temperate and subtropical Eurasia. It contains the "typical spiny ", including the well-known Cobitis taenia of Europe.[Perdices, A., Bohlen, J. & Doadrio, I. (2008): The molecular diversity of adriatic spined loaches (Teleostei, Cobitidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 46 (1): 382–390.]
Species
There are currently 97 recognized species in this genus:
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Cobitis amphilekta Vasil'eva & Vasil'ev, 2012 (Khvalyn spined loach)
[Vasil'eva, E.D. & Vasil'ev, V.P. (2012): Cobitis amphilekta sp. nova, a New Species of Spined Loaches (Cobitidae, Cypriniformes) from the Caspian Sea Basin. Journal of Ichthyology, 52 (3): 200–206.]
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Cobitis arachthosensis Economidis & Nalbant, 1996
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Cobitis arenae (Lin Shu-Yen, 1934)
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Cobitis australis Chen Yong-Xia, Chen Yi-Feng & He De-Kui, 2013
[Chen, Y.-X., Chen, Y.-F. & He, D.-K. (2013): A new species of spined loach (Osteichthyes, Cobitidae) from the Pearl River, Guangxi of China. Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica, 38 (2): 377-387.]
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Cobitis avicennae Mousavi-Sabet, Saber Vatandoust, Esmaeili, Geiger & Freyhof, 2015 (Zagros spined loach)
[Mousavi-Sabet, H., Vatandoust, S., Esmaeili, H.R., Geiger, M.F. & Freyhof, J. (2015): Cobitis avicennae, a new species of spined loach from the Tigris River drainage (Teleostei: Cobitidae). Zootaxa, 3914 (5): 558–568.]
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Cobitis baishagensis Chen Yong-Xia, Sui Xiao-Yun, N. Liang & Chen Yi-Feng, 2015
[Chen, Y., Sui, X., Liang, N. & Chen, Y. (2015): Two new species of the genus Cobitis Linnaeus (Teleostei: Cobitidae) from southern China. Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 34 (3): 517–525.]
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Cobitis battalgilae Băcescu, 1962 (Battalgil's spined loach)
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Cobitis bilineata Canestrini, 1865
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Cobitis bilseli Battalgil, 1942 (Beyşehir spined loach)
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Cobitis biwae D. S. Jordan & Snyder, 1901
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Cobitis brevifasciata (Kim Ik-Soo & Lee Wan-Ok, 1995)
[Perdices, A., Bohlen, J., Šlechtová, V. & Doadrio, I. (2016): Molecular Evidence for Multiple Origins of the European Spined Loaches (Teleostei, Cobitidae). PLoS ONE, 11 (1): e0144628.]
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Cobitis calderoni Băcescu, 1962
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Cobitis choii Kim Ik-Soo & Son Yeong-Mok, 1984 (Choi's spined loach)
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Cobitis crassicauda Chen Yong-Xia & Chen Yi-Feng, 2013
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(2013): [http://www.ivb.cz/folia_zoologica/archive/62_83-95.pdf Three new species of cobitid fish (Teleostei, Cobitidae) from the River Xinjiang and the River Le’anjiang, tributaries of Lake Poyang of China, with remarks on their classification.] ''Folia Zoologica, 62 (2): 83-95.''
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Cobitis dalmatina S. L. Karaman, 1928
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Cobitis damlae Erk' Akan & Özdemir, 2014 (Dalaman spined loach)
[Erkakan, F. & Özdemir, F. (2014): The first new cave fish species, Cobitis damlae (Teleostei: Cobitidae) from Turkey. Hacettepe Journal of Biology and Chemistry, 42 (2): 275–279.]
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Cobitis delicata Hisashi Niwa, 1937
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Cobitis dolichorhynchus Nichols, 1918
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Cobitis dorademiri Erk' Akan, Özdemir & Özeren, 2017
[Erkakan, F., Özdemir, F. & Özeren, S.C. (2017): Two new species of the genus Cobitis Linnaeus (Teleostei: Cobitidae) from Turkey. FishTaxa, 2 (2): 82-89.]
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Cobitis elazigensis Coad & Sarıeyyüpoglu, 1988 (Tigris spined loach)
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Cobitis elongata Heckel & Rudolf Kner, 1857
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Cobitis elongatoides Băcescu & R. F. Mayer, 1969
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Cobitis evreni Erk' Akan, Özeren & Nalbant, 2008 (Ceyhan spined loach)
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Cobitis fahireae Erk' Akan, Ekmekçi & Nalbant, 1998 (Küçük Menderes spined loach)
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Cobitis faridpaki Mousavi-Sabet, Vasil'eva, Saber Vatandoust & Vasil'ev, 2011
[Mousavi-Sabet, H., Vasil'eva, E.D., Vatandoust, S. & Vasil'ev, V.P.
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(2011): [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0032945211100055 ''Cobitis faridpaki'' sp. nova — a New Spined Loach Species (Cobitidae) from the Southern Caspian Sea Basin (Iran).] ''Journal of Ichthyology, 51 (10): 925–931.''
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Cobitis fasciola Chen Yong-Xia & Chen Yi-Feng, 2013
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Cobitis gladkovi Vasil'ev & Vasil'eva, 2008
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Cobitis gracilis Chen Yong-Xia & Chen Yi-Feng, 2016
[Chen, Y. & Chen, Y. (2016): A new species of the genus Cobitis (Cypriniformes: Cobitidae) from the Northeast China. Zoological Systematics, 41 (4): 379-391.]
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Cobitis guttatus (V. H. Nguyễn, 2005)
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Cobitis hankugensis Kim Ik-Soo, Park Jong-Young, Son Yeong-Mok & Nalbant, 2003
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Cobitis hellenica Economidis & Nalbant, 1996
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Cobitis hereromacula Chen Yong-Xia, Sui Xiao-Yun, N. Liang & Chen Yi-Feng, 2015
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Cobitis herzegoviniensis Ivana Buj & Šanda, 2014
[Buj, I., Šanda, R., Marčić, Z., Ćaleta, M. & Mrakovčić, M. (2014): Combining Morphology and Genetics in Resolving Taxonomy – A Systematic Revision of Spined Loaches (Genus Cobitis; Cypriniformes, Actinopterygii) in the Adriatic Watershed. PLoS ONE, 9 (6): e99833.]
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Cobitis hugowolfeldi (Nalbant, 1993)
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Cobitis illyrica Freyhof & Stelbrink, 2007
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Cobitis jadovaensis Mustafić & Mrakovčić, 2008
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Cobitis kaibarai Jun Nakajima, 2012
[Nakajima, J. (2012): Taxonomic study of the Cobitis striata complex (Cypriniformes, Cobitidae) in Japan. Zootaxa, 3586: 103–130.]
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Cobitis kellei Erk' Akan, Ekmekçi & Nalbant, 1998 (Göksu spined loach)
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Cobitis koreensis Kim Ik-Soo, 1975
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Cobitis laoensis (Sauvage, 1878)
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Cobitis laterimaculata Yan Ji-Ping & Zheng Mi-Liang, 1984
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Cobitis lebedevi Vasil'eva & Vasil'ev, 1985
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Cobitis levantina Friedhelm Krupp & Moubayed-Breil, 1992 (Orontes spined loach)
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Cobitis linea (Heckel, 1847)
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Cobitis longibarba (Chen Yi-Feng & Chen Yong-Xia, 2005)
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Cobitis longicorpus Kim Ik-Soo, Choi Ki-Chul & Nalbant, 1976
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Cobitis lutheri Rendahl (de), 1935 (Luther's spined loach)
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Cobitis macrostigma Dabry de Thiersant, 1872
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Cobitis magnostriata Jun Nakajima, 2012
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Cobitis maroccana Pellegrin, 1929
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Cobitis matsubarai Okada & Hyozi Ikeda, 1939
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Cobitis megaspila Nalbant, 1993
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Cobitis melanoleuca Nichols, 1925
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Cobitis meridionalis S. L. Karaman, 1924
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Cobitis microcephala Chen Yong-Xia & Chen Yi-Feng, 2011
[Chen, Y. & Chen, Y.
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(2011): [http://www.ivb.cz/folia_zoologica/archive/60_143-152.pdf Two new species of cobitid fish (Teleostei, Cobitidae) from the River Nanliu and the River Beiliu, China.] ''Folia Zoologica, 60 (2): 143–152.''
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Cobitis minamorii Jun Nakajima, 2012
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Cobitis minhi S. V. Ngô, 2008
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Cobitis multifasciata Yojiro Wakiya & Tamezo Mori, 1929
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Cobitis multimaculata Chen Yong-Xia & Chen Yi-Feng, 2011
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Cobitis nalbanti Vasil'eva, Kim Dae-Min, Vasil'ev, Ko Myeong-Hun & Won Yong-Jin, 2016 (Nalbant's spined loach)
[Vasil'eva, E.D., Kim, D., Vasil'ev, V.P., Ko, M.-H. & Won, Y.-J. (2016): Cobitis nalbanti, a new species of spined loach from South Korea, and redescription of Cobitis lutheri (Teleostei: Cobitidae). Zootaxa, 4208 (6): 577-591.]
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Cobitis narentana S. L. Karaman, 1928
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Cobitis ohridana S. L. Karaman, 1928
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Cobitis pacifica Kim Ik-Soo, Park Jong-Young & Nalbant, 1999
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Cobitis paludica (F. de Buen, 1930)
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Cobitis phrygica Battalgazi, 1944 (Acı spined loach)
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Cobitis pontica Vasil'eva & Vasil'ev, 2006 (Pontic spined loach)
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Cobitis pumila Kim Ik-Soo & Lee Wan-Ok, 1987 (Puan spined loach)
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Cobitis puncticulata Erk' Akan, Ekmekçi & Nalbant, 1998 (Spotted spined loach)
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Cobitis punctilineata Economidis & Nalbant, 1996
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Cobitis rara Chen Jing-Xing, 1981
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Cobitis sakahoko Jun Nakajima & Yuzuru Suzawa, 2015
[Nakajima, J. & Suzawa, Y. (2015): Cobitis sakahoko, a new species of spined loach (Cypriniformes: Cobitidae) from southern Kyushu Island, Japan. Ichthyological Research, 63 (1): 68–78.]
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Cobitis saniae Soheil Eagderi, Jouladeh-Roudbar, Pariya Jalili, Sayyadzadeh & Esmaeili, 2017
[Eagderi, S., Jouladeh-Roudbar, A., Jalili, P., Sayyadzadeh, G. & Esmaeili, H.R. (2017): Taxonomic status of the genus Cobitis Linnaeus, 1758 (Teleostei: Cobitidae) in the southern Caspian Sea basin, Iran with description of a new species. FishTaxa, 2 (1): 48-61.]
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Cobitis satunini Gladkov, 1935
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Cobitis shikokuensis Yuzuru Suzawa, 2006
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Cobitis sibirica Gladkov, 1935
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Cobitis simplicispina Hankó (hu), 1925 (Sakarya spined loach)
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Cobitis sinensis Sauvage & Dabry de Thiersant, 1874 (Siberian spined loach)
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Cobitis sipahilerae Erk' Akan, Özdemir & Özeren, 2017
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Cobitis splendens Erk' Akan, Ekmekçi & Nalbant, 1998 (Splendid spined loach)
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Cobitis stenocauda Chen Yong-Xia & Chen Yi-Feng, 2013
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Cobitis stephanidisi Economidis, 1992
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Cobitis striata Hyozi Ikeda, 1936
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Cobitis strumicae S. L. Karaman, 1955 (Bulgarian spined loach)
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Cobitis taenia Carl Linnaeus, 1758 (Spined loach)
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Cobitis takatsuensis Nobuhiko Mizuno, 1970
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Cobitis takenoi Jun Nakajima, 2016
[Nakajima, J. (2016): Cobitis takenoi sp. n. (Cypriniformes, Cobitidae): a new spined loach from Honshu Island, Japan. ZooKeys, 568: 119–128.]
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Cobitis tanaitica Băcescu & R. F. Mayer, 1969
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Cobitis taurica Vasil'eva, Vasil'ev, Karel Janko, Ráb & Rábová, 2005
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Cobitis tetralineata Kim Ik-Soo, Park Jong-Young & Nalbant, 1999
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Cobitis trichonica Stephanidis, 1974
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Cobitis turcica Hankó (hu), 1925 (Turkish spined loach)
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Cobitis vardarensis S. L. Karaman, 1928 (Vardar spined loach)
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Cobitis vettonica Doadrio & Perdices, 1997
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Cobitis xinjiangensis (Chen Yi-Feng & Chen Yong-Xia, 2005)
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Cobitis ylengensis S. V. Ngô, 2003
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Cobitis yongdokensis (Kim Ik-Soo & Park Jong-Young, 1997)
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Cobitis zanandreai Cavicchioli, 1965
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Cobitis zhejiangensis Son Yeong-Mok & He Shun-Ping, 2005
