Acanthocobitis

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
Subfamilia: Nemacheilinae
Genus: Acanthocobitis
Species: A. pavonacea
Name

Acanthocobitis Peters, 1861

Type species: Acanthocobitis longipinnis Peters, 1861

Etymology: From acanthus (= spine), referring to prominent spine under eyes of A. longipinnis, and cobitis, an ancient name for loach, derived from the Greek kobitis, a gudgeon.
References

Peters, W.C.H. 1861. Über zwei neue Gattungen von Fischen aus dem Ganges. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussische Akademie des Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1861: 712–713.
Grant, S. 2007. A new subgenus of Acanthocobitis Peters, 1861 (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Ichthyofile No. 2: 1–9. Reference page.
Kottelat, M. 2012. Acanthocobitis pictilis, a new species of loach from Myanmar and Thailand (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Zootaxa 3327: 45–52. Preview Reference page.
Singer, R. & Page, L.M. 2015. Revision of the zipper loaches, Acanthocobitis and Paracanthocobitis (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae), with descriptions of five new species. Copeia 103(2): 378–401. DOI: 10.1643/CI-13-128 Reference page.

Links

Scharpf, C. & Lazara, K.J. 2018. Order CYPRINIFORMES: Family NEMACHEILIDAE (Stone Loaches). Fish Name Etymology Database, The ETYFish Project.

Acanthocobitis botia

Acanthocobitis pavonacea

Acanthocobitis is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fish of the stone loach family, Nemacheilidae. Recent work has suggested that the genus be split into two with the former subgenus Paracanthocobitis being raised to a full species, leaving just the type species, Acanthocobitis pavonacea, in the current genus.[1]
Species

The following species are included in Acanthocobitis:[2]

Acanthocobitis botia (F. Hamilton, 1822) (Mottled zipper loach)
Acanthocobitis mooreh (Sykes, 1839) (Maharashtra zipper loach)
Acanthocobitis pavonacea Peters, 1861 (Spearfin loach)
Acanthocobitis pictilis (Kottelat, 2012) (Ataran zipper loach) [3]
Acanthocobitis rubidipinnis (Blyth, 1860) (Cherryfin zipper loach)
Acanthocobitis urophthalmus (Günther, 1868) (Banded mountain zipper loach)

References

Singer, R.A.; Page, L.M. (2015). "Revision of the Zipper Loaches, Acanthocobitis and Paracanthocobitis (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae), with Descriptions of Five New Species". Copeia. 103 (2): 378–401. doi:10.1643/ci-13-128.
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2023). Species of Acanthocobitis in FishBase. September 2023 version.
Kottelat M (2012). "Acanthocobitis pictilis, a new species of loach from Myanmar and Thailand (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae)". Zootaxa. 3327: 45–52.