Paracobitis

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: Nemacheilidae
Genus: Paracobitis
Species: P. abrishamchiani – P. acuticephala – P. anguillioides – P. basharensis – P. boutanensis – P. erhaiensis – P. ghazniensis – P. hircanica – P. iranica – P. longibarbatus – P. longicauda – P. malapterura – P. molavii – P. oligolepis – P. persa – P. posterodorsalus – P. potanini – P. rhadinae – P. variegatus – P. vignai – P. wujiangensis – P. zabgawraensis

Name

Paracobitis Bleeker, 1863

• Type species: Cobitis malapterura Valenciennes, 1846

Etymology: From para- (= near), referring to similarity to Cobitis, in which type species (P. malapterura) had been placed. (From The ETYFish Project)

Synonyms

• Adiposia Annandale & Hora, 1920
• Pseudodon Kessler, 1874

References

• Bleeker, P., 1863: Sur les genres de la famille des Cobitioïdes. Verslagen en Mededeelingen der Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen. Afdeling Natuurkunde, 15: 32–44. Reference page. 
• Freyhof, J., H.R. Esmaeili, G. Sayyadzadeh & M.F. Geiger, 2014: Review of the crested loaches of the genus Paracobitis from Iran and Iraq with the description of four new species (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 25 (1): 11–38. Abstract Reference page. 
• 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. 
• Mousavi-Sabet, H., Vatandoust, S., Geiger, M.F. & Freyhof, J. 2019. Paracobitis abrishamchiani, a new crested loach from the southern Caspian Sea basin (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Zootaxa 4545(3): 375–388. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4545.3.3 Reference page. 
• Prokofiev, A.M., 2009: Problems of the classification and phylogeny of Nemacheiline loaches of the group lacking the preethmoid I (Cypriniformes: Balitoridae: Nemacheilinae). Journal of Ichthyology 49 (10): 874-898. DOI: 10.1134/S0032945209100051Reference page. 

Links

• Paracobitis and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
• Paracobitis species list in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.