- Cobitis
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Cobitis Cobitis shikokuensis Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Superclass: Osteichthyes Class: Actinopterygii Subclass: Neopterygii Infraclass: Teleostei Superorder: Ostariophysi Order: Cypriniformes Superfamily: Cobitoidea Family: Cobitidae Subfamily: Cobitinae Genus: Cobitis
Linnaeus, 1758Species About 60, see text
Cobitis is a Palearctic genus of ray-finned fish in the family Cobitidae. It contains the typical spiny loaches, including the well-known Spined Loach (C. taenia) of temperate western Eurasia. Containing almost 60 named species as of mid-2008, at least two undescribed ones are also known. Similar spiny loaches, occurring generally south of the range of Cobitis, are noadays separated in Sabanejewia.[1]
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Species
Several Balkans populations were of doubtful status. They appear only weakly distinct from the Spined Loach, but cladistic analysis of DNA sequence data (nDNA RAG-1 and S7 ribosomal protein intron 1, and mtDNA cytochrome b) confirms that they are old lineages, properly treated as full species. The parapatric C. arachtoensis and C. hellenica are hardly different genetically and might be considered a single species.[2]
- Cobitis albicoloris Chichkoff, 1932
- Cobitis arachthosensis Economidis & Nalbant, 1996
- Cobitis bilineata Canestrini, 1865
- Cobitis bilseli Battalgil, 1942
- Cobitis biwae D. S. Jordan & Snyder, 1901
- Cobitis calderoni Băcescu, 1962
- Cobitis choii I. S. Kim & Y. M. Son, 1984 (Choi's Spiny Loach)
- Cobitis conspersa Cantoni, 1882
- Cobitis dalmatina S. L. Karaman, 1928
- Cobitis dolichorhynchus Nichols, 1918
- Cobitis elazigensis Coad & Sarieyyüpoglu, 1988
- Cobitis elongata Heckel & Kner, 1858 (Balkan Loach)
- Cobitis elongatoides Băcescu & R. Mayer, 1969
- Cobitis evreni Erk'akan, Özeren & Nalbant, 2008
- Cobitis fahirae Erk'akan, Atalay-Ekmekçi & Nalbant, 1998
- Cobitis granoei Rendahl, 1935
- Cobitis hangkugensis I. S. Kim, J. Y. Park, Y. M. Son & Nalbant, 2003
- Cobitis hellenica Economidis & Nalbant, 1996
- Cobitis illyrica Freyhof & Stelbrink, 2007
- Cobitis jadovaensis Mustafić & Mrakovčić, 2008
- Cobitis kellei Erk'akan, Atalay-Ekmekçi & Nalbant, 1998
- Cobitis kurui Erk'akan, Atalay-Ekmekçi & Nalbant, 1998
- Cobitis laoensis (Sauvage, 1878)
- Cobitis lebedevi Vasil'eva & Victor P. Vasil'ev, 1985
- Cobitis levantina Krupp & Moubayed, 1992
- Cobitis linea (Heckel, 1847)
- Cobitis longitaeniatus S. V. Ngô, 2008
- Cobitis lutheri Rendahl, 1935 (Luther's Spiny Loach)
- Cobitis macrostigma Dabry de Thiersant, 1872
- Cobitis maroccana Pellegrin, 1929
- Cobitis matsubarai Okada & Ikeda, 1939
- Cobitis megaspila Nalbant, 1993
- Cobitis melanoleuca Nichols, 1925
- Cobitis melanoleuca gladkovi Victor P. Vasil'ev & Vasil'eva, 2008
- Cobitis melanoleuca melanoleuca Nichols, 1925
- Cobitis meridionalis S. L. Karaman, 1924
- Cobitis microcephala Y. X. Chen & Y. F. Chen, 2011
- Cobitis multimaculata Y. X. Chen & Y. F. Chen, 2011
- Cobitis narentana S. L. Karaman, 1928
- Cobitis nuicocensis V. H. Nguyen & Vo, 2005
- Cobitis ohridana S. L. Karaman, 1928
- Cobitis pacifica I. S. Kim, J. Y. Park & Nalbant, 1999
- Cobitis paludica (de Buen, 1930)
- Cobitis phongnhaensis S. V. Ngô, 2008
- Cobitis pontica Vasil'eva & Victor P. Vasil'ev, 2006
- Cobitis puncticulata Erk'akan, Atalay-Ekmekçi & Nalbant, 1998
- Cobitis punctilineata Economidis & Nalbant, 1996
- Cobitis rhodopensis Vassilev, 1998
- Cobitis rossomeridionalis Vasil'eva & Victor P. Vasil'ev, 1998
- Cobitis satunini Gladkov, 1935
- Cobitis shikokuensis Suzawa, 2006
- Cobitis simplicispina Hankó, 1925
- Cobitis sinensis Sauvage & Dabry de Thiersant, 1874 (Siberian Spiny Loach)
- Cobitis splendens Erk'akan, Atalay-Ekmekçi & Nalbant, 1998
- Cobitis squataeniatus S. V. Ngô, 2008
- Cobitis stephanidisi Economidis, 1992
- Cobitis striata Ikeda, 1936
- Cobitis strumicae S. L. Karaman, 1955
- Cobitis taenia Linnaeus, 1758 (Spined Loach)
- Cobitis takatsuensis Mizuno, 1970
- Cobitis tanaitica Băcescu & R. Mayer, 1969
- Cobitis taurica Vasil'eva & Victor P. Vasil'ev, Janko, Ráb & Rábová, 2005
- Cobitis tetralineata I. S. Kim, J. Y. Park & Nalbant, 1999
- Cobitis trichonica Stephanidis, 1974
- Cobitis turcica Hankó, 1925
- Cobitis vardarensis S. L. Karaman, 1928
- Cobitis vettonica Doadrio & Perdices, 1997
- Cobitis ylengensis S. V. Ngô, 2003
- Cobitis zanandreai Cavicchioli, 1965
See also
- Loach
Footnotes
References
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2011). Species of Cobitis in FishBase. August 2011 version.
- Perdices, Anabel; Bohlen, Jörg & Doadrio, Ignacio (2008): The molecular diversity of adriatic spined loaches (Teleostei, Cobitidae). Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 46(1): 382–390. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2007.05.007 (HTML abstract)
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