Cobitis

<i>Cobitis</i>

Cobitis

Genus of fishes

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]

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Species

There are currently 96 recognized species in this genus:

References

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    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.
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    Erkakan, F. & Özdemir, F. (2014): The first new cave fish species, Cobitis damlae (Teleostei: Cobitidae) from Turkey. Hacettepe Journal of Biology and Chemistry, 42 (2): 275–279.
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