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: Parabotia
Species (12): P. banarescui – P. bimaculatus – P. brevirostris – P. curtus – P. dubius – P. fasciatus – P. heterocheilus – P. kiangsiensis – P. kimluani – P. lijiangensis – P. maculosus – P. mantschuricus – P. parvus – P. vancuongi
Name
Parabotia Dabry de Thiersant, 1872
Type species: Parabotia fasciatus Dabry de Thiersant, 1872
References
Dabry de Thiersant, P. 1872: Nouvelles espèces de poissons de Chine. In: La pisciculture et la pêche en Chine. Paris. 1-196, Pls. 1-50 + 35 (bis). 178-192, Pls. 36-50.
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.
Parabotia 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.
Parabotia is a genus of loaches. Most species in the genus are endemic to China, but P. curtis is from Japan, P. dubius is from Vietnam, and P. mantschuricus is from the Amur River basin.
Species
There are currently 12 recognized species in this genus:[1]
Parabotia banarescui (Nalbant, 1965)
Parabotia bimaculatus J. X. Chen, 1980
Parabotia brevirostris D. G. Zhu & Y. Zhu, 2012[2]
Parabotia curtus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) (Ayumodoki, Kissing Loach)
Parabotia dubius Kottelat, 2001
Parabotia fasciatus Dabry de Thiersant, 1872
Parabotia heterocheilus Zhu & Chen, 2006
Parabotia kiangsiensis R. L. Liu & Z. Z. Guo, 1986
Parabotia lijiangensis J. X. Chen, 1980
Parabotia maculosus (H. W. Wu, 1939)
Parabotia mantschuricus (L. S. Berg, 1907) (Manchurian spiny loach)
Parabotia parvus J. X. Chen, 1980
(Note that under nomenclatural rules, this genus must be considered as masculine even though all other genera ending in -botia are considered to be feminine. See reference for more information.[1])
References
Kottelat, M. (2012): Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). Archived February 11, 2013, at the Wayback Machine The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement No. 26: 1-199.
Zhu, D.-g. & Zhu, Y. (2012): Description of a New Species of Parabotia Fish from Guangxi, China (Cypriniformes: Cobitidae). Archived 2013-08-11 at the Wayback Machine Journal of Yunnan Agricultural University, 27 (3): 447-449. (Chinese w/English abstract)
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