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Spined Loaches
Cobitis
Cobitis is a genus of small freshwater fish in the family Cobitidae from temperate and subtropical Eurasia. It contains the "typical spiny loaches", including the well-known spined loach of Europe. Similar spiny loaches, occurring generally south of the range of Cobitis, are nowadays separated in Sabanejewia.
60 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 125 known species
Spined Loach
speciesCobitis taenia
Chinese Spiny Loach
speciesCobitis sinensis
Italian Spined Loach
speciesCobitis bilineata
Southern Iberian Spined Loach
speciesCobitis paludica
Danubian Spined Loach
speciesCobitis elongatoides
Korean spined loach
speciesCobitis koreensis
Japanese Striped Loach
speciesCobitis biwae
Small-stripe spined loach
speciesCobitis minamorii
Striped Loach
speciesCobitis striata
Cobitis matsubarae
speciesCobitis matsubarae
Siberian Spined Loach
speciesCobitis melanoleuca
Cobitis magnostriata
speciesCobitis magnostriata
Cobitis delicata
speciesCobitis delicata
Struma Spined Loach
speciesCobitis strumicae
Multibanded loach
speciesCobitis multifasciata
Nakdong spined loach
speciesCobitis hankugensis
Cobitis kaibarai
speciesCobitis kaibarai
Atlantic Spined Loach
speciesCobitis atlantica
Western spine loach
speciesCobitis nalbanti
King spine loach
speciesCobitis longicorpus
Cobitis rara
speciesCobitis rara
Eastern spine loach
speciesCobitis yongdokensis
Cobitis sibirica
speciesCobitis sibirica
Northern Iberian Spined Loach
speciesCobitis calderoni
Vardar Spined Loach
speciesCobitis vardarensis
Cobitis takatsuensis
speciesCobitis takatsuensis
Luther's Spiny Loach
speciesCobitis lutheri
Cobitis zhejiangensis
speciesCobitis zhejiangensis
Cobitis nigrolinea
speciesCobitis nigrolinea
Southern spine loach
speciesCobitis hugowolfeldi
Cobitis beijingensis
speciesCobitis beijingensis
Korean stripe spine loach
speciesCobitis tetralineata
Choi's spiny loach
speciesCobitis choii
Trichonis spined loach
speciesCobitis trichonica
Cobitis feroniae
speciesCobitis feroniae
Louros Spined Loach
speciesCobitis hellenica
Buan spine loach
speciesCobitis pumila
Northern spine loach
speciesCobitis pacifica
Korean dwarf loach
speciesCobitis brevifasciata
Brown Spined Loach
speciesCobitis puncticulata
Cobitis sakahoko
speciesCobitis sakahoko
Volturno Spined Loach
speciesCobitis zanandreai
Cobitis baishagensis
speciesCobitis baishagensis
Don spined loach
speciesCobitis tanaitica
Moroccan Spined Loach
speciesCobitis maroccana
Ohrid Spined Loach
speciesCobitis ohridana
Cobitis laterimaculata
speciesCobitis laterimaculata
Aggitis spined loach
speciesCobitis punctilineata
Vettonian spined-loach
speciesCobitis vettonica
Tango Stripe Spined Loach
speciesCobitis takenoi
Balkan Loach
speciesCobitis elongata
Colchic spined loach
speciesCobitis satunini
Cobitis qujiangensis
speciesCobitis qujiangensis
Cobitis haasi
speciesCobitis haasi
Cobitis faridpaki
speciesCobitis faridpaki
Cobitis pontica
speciesCobitis pontica
Cobitis brachysoma
speciesCobitis brachysoma
Cobitis laoensis
speciesCobitis laoensis
Cobitis longicorpus x multifasciata
hybridCobitis longicorpus x multifasciata
Gibraltar Spined loach
speciesCobitis mellaria
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Books on Marine Fishes
Guillaume Rondelet · 1554 · p.844
History of Animals, Book II: On Oviparous Quadrupeds
Conrad Gessner · 1586 · p.660
History of Animals, Book II: On Oviparous Quadrupeds
Conrad Gessner · 1586 · p.660
History of Animals, Book II: On Oviparous Quadrupeds
Conrad Gessner · 1586 · p.661
History of Animals, Book II: On Oviparous Quadrupeds
Conrad Gessner · 1586 · p.369
De Piscibus Libri V et De Cetis Liber Unus
Ulisse Aldrovandi · 1661 · p.676
De Piscibus Libri V et De Cetis Liber Unus
Ulisse Aldrovandi · 1661 · p.677
In the stacks
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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 87543.