Cobitis

Cobitis
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, 1758
Species

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

See also

  • Loach

Footnotes

  1. ^ FishBase (2008), Perdices et al. (2008)
  2. ^ Perdices et al. (2008)

References