Cobitis
Appearance
| Cobitis | |
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| Cobitis delicata | |
| Cobitis paludica | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Division: | Teleostei |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cobitidae |
| Genus: | Cobitis Linnaeus, 1758 |
| Type species | |
| Cobitis taenia Linnaeus, 1758 | |
| Species | |
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| Synonyms | |
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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.[2] Similar spiny loaches, occurring generally south of the range of Cobitis, are nowadays separated in Sabanejewia.[3]
Species
[edit]There are currently 130 recognized species in this genus:[4]
- Cobitis afifeae Freyhof, Bayçelebi & Geiger, 2018
- Cobitis aliyeae Freyhof, Bayçelebi & Geiger, 2018
- Cobitis almadae Doadrio, Sousa-Santos & Robalo, 2023
- Cobitis amphilekta Vasil'eva & Vasil'ev, 2012 (Khvalyn spined loach)[5]
- Cobitis anabelae Freyhof, Bayçelebi & Geiger, 2018
- Cobitis arachthosensis Economidis & Nalbant, 1996
- Cobitis arenae (S. Y. Lin, 1934)
- Cobitis atlantica Doadrio, Sousa-Santos, Robalo & Perea, 2023
- Cobitis austiumensis Endruweit, 2025
- Cobitis australis Y. X. Chen, Y. F. Chen & D. K. He, 2013[6]
- Cobitis avicennae Mousavi-Sabet, Vatandoust, Esmaeili, Geiger & Freyhof, 2015 (Zagros spined loach)[7]
- Cobitis baishagensis Y. X. Chen, X. Y. Sui, N. Liang & Y. F. Chen, 2015[8]
- Cobitis battalgilae Băcescu, 1962 (Battalgil's spined loach)
- Cobitis beijingensis Sun & Zhao, 2025
- Cobitis bilineata Canestrini, 1865
- Cobitis bilseli Battalgil, 1942 (Beyşehir spined loach)
- Cobitis biwae D. S. Jordan & Snyder, 1901
- Cobitis brachysoma Chen & Chen, 2018
- Cobitis brevifasciata (I. S. Kim & W. O. Lee, 1995)[1]
- Cobitis brevipinna (Chen & Chen, 2017)
- Cobitis calderoni Băcescu, 1962
- Cobitis choii I. S. Kim & Y. M. Son, 1984 (Choi's spined loach)
- Cobitis crassicauda Y. X. Chen & Y. F. Chen, 2013[9]
- Cobitis dalmatina S. L. Karaman, 1928
- Cobitis delicata Niwa, 1937[1]
- Cobitis derzhavini Vasil’eva, Solovyeva, Levin & Vasil’ev, 2020
- Cobitis dolichorhynchus Nichols, 1918
- Cobitis dorademiri Erk' Akan, Özdemir & Özeren, 2017[10]
- Cobitis elazigensis Coad & Sarıeyyüpoglu, 1988 (Tigris spined loach)
- Cobitis elongata Heckel & Kner, 1857
- Cobitis elongatoides Băcescu & R. F. Mayer, 1969
- Cobitis emrei Freyhof, Bayçelebi & Geiger, 2018
- Cobitis erkakanae Freyhof, Bayçelebi & Geiger, 2018
- Cobitis evreni Erk' Akan, Özeren & Nalbant, 2008 (Ceyhan spined loach)
- Cobitis fahireae Erk' Akan, Ekmekçi & Nalbant, 1998 (Küçük Menderes spined loach)
- Cobitis faridpaki Mousavi-Sabet, Vasil'eva, Vatandoust & Vasil'ev, 2011[11]
- Cobitis fasciola Y. X. Chen & Y. F. Chen, 2013[9]
- Cobitis feroniae Novaga, Bellucci, Geiger & Freyhof, 2024
- Cobitis fimbriata (Chen & Chen, 2017)
- Cobitis gladkovi Vasil'ev & Vasil'eva, 2008
- Cobitis gracilis Y. X. Chen & Y. F. Chen, 2016[12]
- Cobitis haasi Klausewitz, 1955
- Cobitis hankugensis I. S. Kim, J. Y. Park, Y. M. Son & Nalbant, 2003
- Cobitis hellenica Economidis & Nalbant, 1996
- Cobitis hereromacula Y. X. Chen, X. Y. Sui, N. Liang & Y. F. Chen, 2015[8]
- Cobitis herzegoviniensis Buj & Šanda, 2014[13]
- Cobitis hugowolfeldi (Nalbant, 1993)[1]
- Cobitis illyrica Freyhof & Stelbrink, 2007
- Cobitis indus Eagderi, Seçer & Freyhof, 2022
- Cobitis jadovaensis Mustafić & Mrakovčić, 2008
- Cobitis joergbohleni Freyhof, Bayçelebi & Geiger, 2018
- Cobitis kaibarai Nakajima, 2012[14]
- Cobitis kellei Erk' Akan, Ekmekçi & Nalbant, 1998 (Göksu spined loach)
- Cobitis koreensis I. S. Kim, 1975[1]
- Cobitis laoensis (Sauvage, 1878)
- Cobitis laterimaculata J. P. Yan & M. L. Zheng, 1984[1]
- Cobitis lebedevi Vasil'eva & Vasil'ev, 1985
- Cobitis leptosoma Chen, Sui, He & Chen, 2015
- Cobitis levantina Krupp & Moubayed-Breil, 1992 (Orontes spined loach)
- Cobitis linea (Heckel, 1847)
- Cobitis longibarba (Y. F. Chen & Y. X. Chen, 2005)[1]
- Cobitis longicorpus I. S. Kim, K. C. Choi & Nalbant, 1976[1]
- Cobitis lutheri Rendahl (de), 1935 (Luther's spined loach)[15]
- Cobitis macrostigma Dabry de Thiersant, 1872
- Cobitis magnostriata Nakajima, 2012[14]
- Cobitis maroccana Pellegrin, 1929
- Cobitis matsubarae Okada & Ikeda, 1939
- Cobitis megaspila Nalbant, 1993
- Cobitis melanoleuca Nichols, 1925
- Cobitis mellaria Doadrio & Perea, 2023
- Cobitis meridionalis S. L. Karaman, 1924
- Cobitis microcephala Y. X. Chen & Y. F. Chen, 2011[16]
- Cobitis minamorii Nakajima, 2012[14]
- Cobitis minhi S. V. Ngô, 2008
- Cobitis monorus Endruweit, 2025
- Cobitis multifasciata Wakiya & T. Mori, 1929[1]
- Cobitis multimaculata Y. X. Chen & Y. F. Chen, 2011[16]
- Cobitis nalbanti Vasil'eva, D. M. Kim, Vasil'ev, M. H. Ko & Y. J. Won, 2016 (Nalbant's spined loach)[15]
- Cobitis narentana S. L. Karaman, 1928
- Cobitis nigrolinea (Chen & Chen, 2017)
- Cobitis obtusirostra Chen, Sui, He & Chen, 2015
- Cobitis ohridana S. L. Karaman, 1928
- Cobitis pacifica I. S. Kim, J. Y. Park & Nalbant, 1999[1]
- Cobitis paludica (F. de Buen, 1930)
- Cobitis petrtyli Endruweit, 2025
- Cobitis phrygica Battalgazi, 1944 (Acı spined loach)
- Cobitis pirii Freyhof, Bayçelebi & Geiger, 2018
- Cobitis pontica Vasil'eva & Vasil'ev, 2006 (Pontic spined loach)
- Cobitis pulchra Endruweit, 2025
- Cobitis pumila I. S. Kim & W. O. Lee, 1987 (Puan spined loach)[1]
- Cobitis puncticulata Erk' Akan, Ekmekçi & Nalbant, 1998 (Spotted spined loach)
- Cobitis punctilineata Economidis & Nalbant, 1996
- Cobitis qujiangensis (Chen & Chen, 2017
- Cobitis rara J. X. Chen, 1981
- Cobitis sakahoko Nakajima & Suzawa, 2015[17]
- Cobitis saniae Eagderi, Jouladeh-Roudbar, Jalili, Sayyadzadeh & Esmaeili, 2017[18]
- Cobitis satunini Gladkov, 1935
- Cobitis shikokuensis Suzawa, 2006
- Cobitis sibirica Gladkov, 1935
- Cobitis simplicispina Hankó (hu), 1925 (Sakarya spined loach)
- Cobitis sinensis Sauvage & Dabry de Thiersant, 1874 (Siberian spined loach)
- Cobitis sipahilerae Erk' Akan, Özdemir & Özeren, 2017[10]
- Cobitis splendens Erk' Akan, Ekmekçi & Nalbant, 1998 (Splendid spined loach)
- Cobitis squataeniata Ngô, 2008
- Cobitis stenocauda Y. X. Chen & Y. F. Chen, 2013[9]
- Cobitis stephanidisi Economidis, 1992
- Cobitis striata Ikeda, 1936[14]
- Cobitis strumicae S. L. Karaman, 1955 (Bulgarian spined loach)
- Cobitis taenia Linnaeus, 1758 (Spined loach)
- Cobitis takatsuensis Mizuno, 1970
- Cobitis takenoi Nakajima, 2016[19]
- Cobitis tanaitica Băcescu & R. F. Mayer, 1969
- Cobitis taurica Vasil'eva, Vasil'ev, Janko, Ráb & Rábová, 2005
- Cobitis tetralineata I. S. Kim, J. Y. Park & Nalbant, 1999
- Cobitis tigrina (Zhang, Zhang, Chen & Zhang, 2025)
- Cobitis tosaensis Takahashi, 2026
- Cobitis trichonica Stephanidis, 1974
- Cobitis troasensis Freyhof, Bayçelebi & Geiger, 2018
- Cobitis turcica Hankó (hu), 1925 (Turkish spined loach)
- Cobitis vardarensis S. L. Karaman, 1928 (Vardar spined loach)
- Cobitis vettonica Doadrio & Perdices, 1997
- Cobitis xinjiangensis (Y. F. Chen & Y. X. Chen, 2005)[1]
- Cobitis xui Tan, Li, Wu & Yang, 2019
- Cobitis ylengensis S. V. Ngô, 2003
- Cobitis yongdokensis (I. S. Kim & J. Y. Park, 1997)[1]
- Cobitis zanandreai Cavicchioli, 1965
- Cobitis zhejiangensis Y. M. Son & S. P. He, 2005
- Synonyms
- Cobitis damlae Erk' Akan & Özdemir, 2014 (Dalaman spined loach)[20]; valid as C. fahireae
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Perdices, A.; Bohlen, J.; Šlechtová, V.; Doadrio, I. (2016). "Molecular Evidence for Multiple Origins of the European Spined Loaches (Teleostei, Cobitidae)". PLOS ONE. 11 (1) e0144628. Bibcode:2016PLoSO..1144628P. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0144628. PMC 4699775. PMID 26727121.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Cobitis". FishBase. June 2017 version.
- ↑ Perdices, A.; Bohlen, J.; Doadrio, I. (2008). "The molecular diversity of adriatic spined loaches (Teleostei, Cobitidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 46 (1): 382–390. Bibcode:2008MolPE..46..382P. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2007.05.007. PMID 17625922.
- ↑ Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Cobitis". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 14 August 2026.
- ↑ Vasil'eva, E.D.; Vasil'ev, V.P. (2012). "Cobitis amphilekta sp. nova, a New Species of Spined Loaches (Cobitidae, Cypriniformes) from the Caspian Sea Basin". Journal of Ichthyology. 52 (3): 200–206. Bibcode:2012JIch...52..200V. doi:10.1134/S0032945212020154.
- ↑ Chen, Y.-X.; Chen, Y.-F.; He, D.-K. (2013). "A new species of spined loach (Osteichthyes, Cobitidae) from the Pearl River, Guangxi of China". Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica. 38 (2): 377–387.
- ↑ Mousavi-Sabet, H.; Vatandoust, S.; Esmaeili, H.R.; Geiger, M.F.; Freyhof, J. (2015). "Cobitis avicennae, a new species of spined loach from the Tigris River drainage (Teleostei: Cobitidae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3914 (5): 558–568. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3914.5.4. PMID 25661962.
- 1 2 Chen, Y.; Sui, X.; Liang, N.; Chen, Y. (2015). "Two new species of the genus Cobitis Linnaeus (Teleostei: Cobitidae) from southern China". Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology. 34 (3): 517–525. doi:10.1007/s00343-016-4277-0.
- 1 2 3 Chen, Y.; Chen, Y. (2013). "Three new species of cobitid fish (Teleostei, Cobitidae) from the River Xinjiang and the River Le'anjiang, tributaries of Lake Poyang of China, with remarks on their classification" (PDF). Folia Zoologica. 62 (2): 83–95. doi:10.25225/fozo.v62.i2.a1.2013.
- 1 2 Erkakan, F.; Özdemir, F.; Özeren, S.C. (2017). "Two new species of the genus Cobitis Linnaeus (Teleostei: Cobitidae) from Turkey". FishTaxa. 2 (2): 82–89.
- ↑ Mousavi-Sabet, H.; Vasil'eva, E.D.; Vatandoust, S.; Vasil'ev, V.P. (2011). "Cobitis faridpaki sp. nova — a New Spined Loach Species (Cobitidae) from the Southern Caspian Sea Basin (Iran)". Journal of Ichthyology. 51 (10): 925–931. Bibcode:2011JIch...51..925M. doi:10.1134/S0032945211100055.
- ↑ Chen, Y.; Chen, Y. (2016). "A new species of the genus Cobitis (Cypriniformes: Cobitidae) from the Northeast China". Zoological Systematics. 41 (4): 379–391. doi:10.11865/zs.201643.
- ↑ Buj, I.; Šanda, R.; Marčić, Z.; Ćaleta, M.; Mrakovčić, M. (2014). "Combining Morphology and Genetics in Resolving Taxonomy – A Systematic Revision of Spined Loaches (Genus Cobitis; Cypriniformes, Actinopterygii) in the Adriatic Watershed". PLOS ONE. 9 (6) e99833. Bibcode:2014PLoSO...999833B. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0099833. PMC 4053515. PMID 24918426.
- 1 2 3 4 Nakajima, J. (2012). "Taxonomic study of the Cobitis striata complex (Cypriniformes, Cobitidae) in Japan" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3586: 103–130. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3586.1.11.
- 1 2 Vasil'eva, E.D.; Kim, D.; Vasil'ev, V.P.; Ko, M.-H.; Won, Y.-J. (2016). "Cobitis nalbanti, a new species of spined loach from South Korea, and redescription of Cobitis lutheri (Teleostei: Cobitidae)". Zootaxa. 4208 (6): 577–591.
- 1 2 Chen, Y.; Chen, Y. (2011). "Two new species of cobitid fish (Teleostei, Cobitidae) from the River Nanliu and the River Beiliu, China" (PDF). Folia Zoologica. 60 (2): 143–152. doi:10.25225/fozo.v60.i2.a8.2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-09-21.
- ↑ Nakajima, J.; Suzawa, Y. (2015). "Cobitis sakahoko, a new species of spined loach (Cypriniformes: Cobitidae) from southern Kyushu Island, Japan". Ichthyological Research. 63 (1): 68–78. doi:10.1007/s10228-015-0476-5.
- ↑ Eagderi, S.; Jouladeh-Roudbar, A.; Jalili, P.; Sayyadzadeh, G.; Esmaeili, H.R. (2017). "Taxonomic status of the genus Cobitis Linnaeus, 1758 (Teleostei: Cobitidae) in the southern Caspian Sea basin, Iran with description of a new species". FishTaxa. 2 (1): 48–61.
- ↑ Nakajima, J. (2016). "Cobitis takenoi sp. n. (Cypriniformes, Cobitidae): a new spined loach from Honshu Island, Japan". ZooKeys (568): 119–128. Bibcode:2016ZooK..568..119N. doi:10.3897/zookeys.568.7733. PMC 4829672. PMID 27103876.
- ↑ Erkakan, F.; Özdemir, F. (2014). "The first new cave fish species, Cobitis damlae (Teleostei: Cobitidae) from Turkey" (PDF). Hacettepe Journal of Biology and Chemistry. 42 (2): 275–279. doi:10.15671/HJBC.20144210863 (inactive 13 August 2026).
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