- Animals
- ›Chordates
- ›Vertebrates
- ›Ray-finned Fishes
- ›Carps, Characins, Catfishes and Allies
- ›Minnows, Suckers, Carps, and Loaches
- ›Loaches
- ›Botias
- ›Beautiful Loaches
True Botias
Botia
Botia (Indian loaches) is a genus of freshwater fish in the loach family (Botiidae). It was a large genus with about 20 species. In 2004 Maurice Kottelat proposed in his paper (along with the description of Botia kubotai, see References below) to divide the genus into four related genera based on fish appearance and locality:
9 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 9 known species
Almorha Loach
speciesBotia almorhae
Bengal Loach
speciesBotia dario
Zebra Loach
speciesBotia striata
Burmese Border Loach
speciesBotia kubotai
Reticulated Loach
speciesBotia lohachata
Ladder Loach
speciesBotia rostrata
Golden Zebra Loach
speciesBotia histrionica
Emperor Loach
speciesBotia udomritthiruji
Birdi Loach
speciesBotia birdi
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Botia in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 87035.