Botiidae

Pointface loaches

60 species

1. 1Ambastaia nigrolineata (Kottelat & Chu, 1987)fresh · subtropical
2. 2Ambastaia sidthimunki (Klausewitz, 1959) · Dwarf botiafresh · tropical
3. 3Botia almorhae Gray, 1831 · Almorha loachfresh · tropical
4. 4Botia birdi Chaudhuri, 1909 · Birdi loachfresh · subtropical
5. 5Botia dario (Hamilton, 1822) · Bengal loachfresh · tropical
6. 6Botia histrionica Blyth, 1860 · Loachfresh · tropical
7. 7Botia kubotai Kottelat, 2004fresh · tropical
8. 8Botia lohachata Chaudhuri, 1912 · Reticulate loachfresh · tropical
9. 9Botia rostrata Günther, 1868 · Gangetic loachfresh · tropical
10. 10Botia striata Narayan Rao, 1920 · Zebra loachfresh · tropical
11. 11Botia udomritthiruji Ng, 2007fresh · tropical
12. 12Chromobotia macracanthus (Bleeker, 1852) · Clown loachfresh · tropical
13. 13Leptobotia bellacauda Bohlen & Slechtová, 2016fresh · subtropical
14. 14Leptobotia brachycephala Guo & Zhang, 2021fresh · subtropical
15. 15Leptobotia citrauratea (Nichols, 1925)fresh · subtropical
16. 16Leptobotia elongata (Bleeker, 1870)fresh · subtropical
17. 17Leptobotia flavolineata Wang, 1981fresh · temperate
18. 18Leptobotia guilinensis Chen, 1980fresh · subtropical
19. 19Leptobotia hengyangensis Huang & Zhang, 1986fresh · subtropical
20. 20Leptobotia micra Bohlen & Slechtová, 2017fresh · subtropical
21. 21Leptobotia microphthalma Fu & Ye, 1983fresh · subtropical
22. 22Leptobotia orientalis Xu, Fang & Wang, 1981fresh · subtropical
23. 23Leptobotia pellegrini Fang, 1936fresh · brackish · subtropical
24. 24Leptobotia posterodorsalis Lan & Chen, 1992fresh · subtropical
25. 25Leptobotia punctata Li, Li & Chen, 2008fresh · subtropical
26. 26Leptobotia rubrilabris (Dabry de Thiersant, 1872)fresh · temperate
27. 27Leptobotia taeniops (Sauvage, 1878)fresh · temperate
28. 28Leptobotia tchangi Fang, 1936fresh · temperate
29. 29Leptobotia tientainensis (Wu, 1930)fresh · temperate
30. 30Parabotia banarescui (Nalbant, 1965)fresh · temperate
31. 31Parabotia bimaculatus Chen, 1980fresh · temperate
32. 32Parabotia brevirostris Zhu & Zhu, 2012fresh · subtropical
33. 33Parabotia curtus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) · Kissing loachfresh · temperate
34. 34Parabotia dubius Kottelat, 2001fresh · tropical
35. 35Parabotia fasciatus Dabry de Thiersant, 1872fresh · brackish · subtropical
36. 36Parabotia kiangsiensis Liu & Guo, 1986fresh · tropical
37. 37Parabotia kimluani Nguyen, 2005fresh · tropical
38. 38Parabotia lijiangensis Chen, 1980fresh · subtropical
39. 39Parabotia maculosus (Wu, 1939)fresh · temperate
40. 40Parabotia mantschuricus (Berg, 1907) · Manchurian spiny loachfresh · temperate
41. 41Parabotia parvus Chen, 1980fresh · subtropical
42. 42Parabotia vancuongi Nguyen, 2005fresh · tropical
43. 43Sinibotia longiventralis (Yang & Chen, 1992)fresh · tropical
44. 44Sinibotia pulchra (Wu, 1939)fresh · subtropical
45. 45Sinibotia reevesae (Chang, 1944)fresh · subtropical
46. 46Sinibotia robusta (Wu, 1939)fresh · brackish · subtropical
47. 47Sinibotia superciliaris (Günther, 1892)fresh · subtropical
48. 48Sinibotia zebra (Wu, 1939)fresh · temperate
49. 49Syncrossus beauforti (Smith, 1931) · Chameleon loachfresh · tropical
50. 50Syncrossus berdmorei Blyth, 1860 · Blyth's loachfresh · tropical
51. 51Syncrossus helodes (Sauvage, 1876) · Tiger botiafresh · tropical
52. 52Syncrossus hymenophysa (Bleeker, 1852) · Tiger loachfresh · tropical
53. 53Syncrossus reversus (Roberts, 1989)fresh · tropical
54. 54Yasuhikotakia caudipunctata (Taki & Doi, 1995)fresh · tropical
55. 55Yasuhikotakia eos (Taki, 1972) · Sun loachfresh · tropical
56. 56Yasuhikotakia lecontei (Fowler, 1937) · Silver loachfresh · tropical
57. 57Yasuhikotakia longidorsalis (Taki & Doi, 1995)fresh · tropical
58. 58Yasuhikotakia modesta (Bleeker, 1864) · Redtail botiafresh · tropical
59. 59Yasuhikotakia morleti (Tirant, 1885) · Skunk botiafresh · tropical
60. 60Yasuhikotakia splendida (Roberts, 1995)fresh · tropical

Source: FishBase v25.04 (fishbase.org), via cboettig/fishbase, fetched 2026-10-18.