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]
| Acanthocobitis | |
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| Acanthocobitis pavonacea | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Nemacheilidae |
| Genus: | Acanthocobitis Peters, 1861 |
| Type species | |
| Acanthocobitis longipinnis Peters 1861
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| Synonyms | |
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Paracanthocobitis Grant, 2007 | |
Species
editThe 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
edit- ^ 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; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Acanthocobitis". FishBase. September 2023 version.
- ^ Kottelat M (2012). "Acanthocobitis pictilis, a new species of loach from Myanmar and Thailand (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae)". Zootaxa. 3327: 45–52.