Botia dario

Botia dario

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Cobitoidei

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Otomorpha Subcohors: Ostariophysi Sectio: Otophysa Ordo: Cypriniformes Subordo: Cobitoidei

Familia: Botiidae
Genus: Botia
Species: Botia dario

Name

Botia dario (Hamilton, 1822)

No types known.

Type locality: Bengal.

Synonyms

• Cobitis dario Hamilton, 1822
• Cobitis geto Hamilton, 1822
• Canthophrys flavicauda Swainson, 1839
• Canthophrys zebra Swainson, 1839
• Botia macrolineata Teugels, De Vos & Snoeks, 1986

References

Primary references

• Hamilton, F. 1822. An Account of the Fishes Found in the River Ganges and Its Branches. Archibald Constable & Co., Hurst, Robinson & Co. Pp. i–vii + 1–405, Pls. 1–39. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Kottelat, M. 2012. Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 26(Supplement 26): 1–199. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Pešić, V.M., Chatterjee, T., Kumar Das, M. & Bordoloi, S. 2013. A new species of water mite (Acari, Hydrachnidia) from Assam, India, found in the gut contents of the fish Botia dario (Botiidae). Zootaxa 3746(3): 454–462. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3746.3.4 Reference page. 

Links

• Botia dario in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.

Vernacular names

English: Bengal loach
magyar: Bengáli díszcsík
ไทย: ปลาหมูอินเดีย

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