Cobitis Explained
Cobitis is a genus of small freshwater fish in the family Cobitidae from temperate and subtropical Eurasia. It contains the "typical spiny loaches", including the well-known spined loach of Europe. Similar spiny loaches, occurring generally south of the range of Cobitis, are nowadays separated in Sabanejewia.[1]
Species
There are currently 96 recognized species in this genus:
- Cobitis amphilekta Vasil'eva & Vasil'ev, 2012 (Khvalyn spined loach)[2]
- Cobitis arachthosensis Economidis & Nalbant, 1996
- Cobitis arenae (S. Y. Lin, 1934)
- Cobitis australis Y. X. Chen, Y. F. Chen & D. K. He, 2013[3]
- Cobitis avicennae Mousavi-Sabet, Vatandoust, Esmaeili, Geiger & Freyhof, 2015 (Zagros spined loach)[4]
- Cobitis baishagensis Y. X. Chen, X. Y. Sui, N. Liang & Y. F. Chen, 2015[5]
- Cobitis battalgili Băcescu, 1962 (Battalgil's spined loach)
- Cobitis bilineata Canestrini, 1865
- Cobitis bilseli Battalgil, 1942 (Beyşehir spined loach)
- Cobitis biwae D. S. Jordan & Snyder, 1901
- Cobitis brevifasciata (I. S. Kim & W. O. Lee, 1995)[6]
- Cobitis calderoni Băcescu, 1962
- Cobitis choii I. S. Kim & Y. M. Son, 1984 (Choi's spined loach)
- Cobitis crassicauda Y. X. Chen & Y. F. Chen, 2013[7]
- Cobitis dalmatina S. L. Karaman, 1928
- Cobitis damlae Erk' Akan & Özdemir, 2014 (Dalaman spined loach)[8]
- Cobitis delicata Niwa, 1937[6]
- Cobitis dolichorhynchus Nichols, 1918
- Cobitis dorademiri Erk' Akan, Özdemir & Özeren, 2017[9]
- Cobitis elazigensis Coad & Sarıeyyüpoglu, 1988 (Tigris spined loach)
- Cobitis elongata Heckel & Kner, 1857
- Cobitis elongatoides Băcescu & R. F. Mayer, 1969
- Cobitis evreni Erk' Akan, Özeren & Nalbant, 2008 (Ceyhan spined loach)
- Cobitis fahireae Erk' Akan, Ekmekçi & Nalbant, 1998 (Küçük Menderes spined loach)
- Cobitis faridpaki Mousavi-Sabet, Vasil'eva, Vatandoust & Vasil'ev, 2011[10]
- Cobitis fasciola Y. X. Chen & Y. F. Chen, 2013[7]
- Cobitis gracilis Y. X. Chen & Y. F. Chen, 2016[11]
- Cobitis guttatus (V. H. Nguyễn, 2005)
- Cobitis hankugensis I. S. Kim, J. Y. Park, Y. M. Son & Nalbant, 2003
- Cobitis hellenica Economidis & Nalbant, 1996
- Cobitis hereromacula Y. X. Chen, X. Y. Sui, N. Liang & Y. F. Chen, 2015[5]
- Cobitis herzegoviniensis Buj & Šanda, 2014[12]
- Cobitis hugowolfeldi (Nalbant, 1993)[6]
- Cobitis illyrica Freyhof & Stelbrink, 2007
- Cobitis jadovaensis Mustafić & Mrakovčić, 2008
- Cobitis kaibarai Nakajima, 2012[13]
- Cobitis kellei Erk' Akan, Ekmekçi & Nalbant, 1998 (Göksu spined loach)
- Cobitis koreensis I. S. Kim, 1975[6]
- Cobitis laoensis (Sauvage, 1878)
- Cobitis laterimaculata J. P. Yan & M. L. Zheng, 1984[6]
- Cobitis lebedevi Vasil'eva & Vasil'ev, 1985
- Cobitis levantina Krupp & Moubayed-Breil, 1992 (Orontes spined loach)
- Cobitis linea (Heckel, 1847)
- Cobitis longibarba (Y. F. Chen & Y. X. Chen, 2005)[6]
- Cobitis longicorpus I. S. Kim, K. C. Choi & Nalbant, 1976[6]
- Cobitis lutheri Rendahl (de), 1935 (Luther's spined loach)
- Cobitis macrostigma Dabry de Thiersant, 1872
- Cobitis magnostriata Nakajima, 2012[13]
- Cobitis maroccana Pellegrin, 1929
- Cobitis matsubarai Okada & Ikeda, 1939
- Cobitis megaspila Nalbant, 1993
- Cobitis melanoleuca Nichols, 1925
- Cobitis meridionalis S. L. Karaman, 1924
- Cobitis microcephala Y. X. Chen & Y. F. Chen, 2011[14]
- Cobitis minamorii Nakajima, 2012[13]
- Cobitis minhi S. V. Ngô, 2008
- Cobitis multifasciata Wakiya & T. Mori, 1929[6]
- Cobitis multimaculata Y. X. Chen & Y. F. Chen, 2011[14]
- Cobitis nalbanti Vasil'eva, D. M. Kim, Vasil'ev, M. H. Ko & Y. J. Won, 2016 (Nalbant's spined loach)[15]
- Cobitis narentana S. L. Karaman, 1928
- Cobitis ohridana S. L. Karaman, 1928
- Cobitis pacifica I. S. Kim, J. Y. Park & Nalbant, 1999[6]
- Cobitis paludica (F. de Buen, 1930)
- Cobitis phrygica Battalgazi, 1944 (Acı spined loach)
- Cobitis pontica Vasil'eva & Vasil'ev, 2006 (Pontic spined loach)
- Cobitis pumila I. S. Kim & W. O. Lee, 1987 (Puan spined loach)[6]
- Cobitis puncticulata Erk' Akan, Ekmekçi & Nalbant, 1998 (Spotted spined loach)
- Cobitis punctilineata Economidis & Nalbant, 1996
- Cobitis rara J. X. Chen, 1981
- Cobitis sakahoko Nakajima & Suzawa, 2015[16]
- Cobitis saniae Eagderi, Jouladeh-Roudbar, Jalili, Sayyadzadeh & Esmaeili, 2017[17]
- Cobitis satunini Gladkov, 1935
- Cobitis shikokuensis Suzawa, 2006
- Cobitis sibirica Gladkov, 1935
- Cobitis simplicispina Hankó (hu), 1925 (Sakarya spined loach)
- Cobitis sinensis Sauvage & Dabry de Thiersant, 1874 (Siberian spined loach)
- Cobitis sipahilerae Erk' Akan, Özdemir & Özeren, 2017[9]
- Cobitis splendens Erk' Akan, Ekmekçi & Nalbant, 1998 (Splendid spined loach)
- Cobitis stenocauda Y. X. Chen & Y. F. Chen, 2013[7]
- Cobitis stephanidisi Economidis, 1992
- Cobitis striata Ikeda, 1936[13]
- Cobitis strumicae S. L. Karaman, 1955 (Bulgarian spined loach)
- Cobitis taenia Linnaeus, 1758 (Spined loach)
- Cobitis takatsuensis Mizuno, 1970
- Cobitis takenoi Nakajima, 2016[18]
- Cobitis tanaitica Băcescu & R. F. Mayer, 1969
- Cobitis taurica Vasil'eva, Vasil'ev, Janko, Ráb & Rábová, 2005
- Cobitis tetralineata I. S. Kim, J. Y. Park & Nalbant, 1999
- Cobitis trichonica Stephanidis, 1974
- Cobitis turcica Hankó (hu), 1925 (Turkish spined loach)
- Cobitis vardarensis S. L. Karaman, 1928 (Vardar spined loach)
- Cobitis vettonica Doadrio & Perdices, 1997
- Cobitis xinjiangensis (Y. F. Chen & Y. X. Chen, 2005)[6]
- Cobitis ylengensis S. V. Ngô, 2003
- Cobitis yongdokensis (I. S. Kim & J. Y. Park, 1997)[6]
- Cobitis zanandreai Cavicchioli, 1965
- Cobitis zhejiangensis Y. M. Son & S. P. He, 2005
Notes and References
- Perdices, A., Bohlen, J. & Doadrio, I. (2008): The molecular diversity of adriatic spined loaches (Teleostei, Cobitidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 46 (1): 382–390.
- Vasil'eva, E.D. & Vasil'ev, V.P. (2012): Cobitis amphilekta sp. nova, a New Species of Spined Loaches (Cobitidae, Cypriniformes) from the Caspian Sea Basin. Journal of Ichthyology, 52 (3): 200–206.
- Chen, Y.-X., Chen, Y.-F. & He, D.-K. (2013): A new species of spined loach (Osteichthyes, Cobitidae) from the Pearl River, Guangxi of China. Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica, 38 (2): 377-387.
- Mousavi-Sabet, H., Vatandoust, S., Esmaeili, H.R., Geiger, M.F. & Freyhof, J. (2015): Cobitis avicennae, a new species of spined loach from the Tigris River drainage (Teleostei: Cobitidae). Zootaxa, 3914 (5): 558–568.
- Chen, Y., Sui, X., Liang, N. & Chen, Y. (2015): Two new species of the genus Cobitis Linnaeus (Teleostei: Cobitidae) from southern China. Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 34 (3): 517–525.
- Perdices, A., Bohlen, J., Šlechtová, V. & Doadrio, I. (2016): Molecular Evidence for Multiple Origins of the European Spined Loaches (Teleostei, Cobitidae). PLoS ONE, 11 (1): e0144628.
- Chen, Y. & Chen, Y. (2013): Three new species of cobitid fish (Teleostei, Cobitidae) from the River Xinjiang and the River Le’anjiang, tributaries of Lake Poyang of China, with remarks on their classification. Folia Zoologica, 62 (2): 83-95.
- Erkakan, F. & Özdemir, F. (2014): The first new cave fish species, Cobitis damlae (Teleostei: Cobitidae) from Turkey. Hacettepe Journal of Biology and Chemistry, 42 (2): 275–279.
- Erkakan, F., Özdemir, F. & Özeren, S.C. (2017): Two new species of the genus Cobitis Linnaeus (Teleostei: Cobitidae) from Turkey. FishTaxa, 2 (2): 82-89.
- Mousavi-Sabet, H., Vasil'eva, E.D., Vatandoust, S. & Vasil'ev, V.P. (2011): Cobitis faridpaki sp. nova — a New Spined Loach Species (Cobitidae) from the Southern Caspian Sea Basin (Iran). Journal of Ichthyology, 51 (10): 925–931.
- Chen, Y. & Chen, Y. (2016): A new species of the genus Cobitis (Cypriniformes: Cobitidae) from the Northeast China. Zoological Systematics, 41 (4): 379-391.
- Buj, I., Šanda, R., Marčić, Z., Ćaleta, M. & Mrakovčić, M. (2014): Combining Morphology and Genetics in Resolving Taxonomy – A Systematic Revision of Spined Loaches (Genus Cobitis; Cypriniformes, Actinopterygii) in the Adriatic Watershed. PLoS ONE, 9 (6): e99833.
- Nakajima, J. (2012): Taxonomic study of the Cobitis striata complex (Cypriniformes, Cobitidae) in Japan. Zootaxa, 3586: 103–130.
- Chen, Y. & Chen, Y. (2011): Two new species of cobitid fish (Teleostei, Cobitidae) from the River Nanliu and the River Beiliu, China. Folia Zoologica, 60 (2): 143–152.
- Vasil'eva, E.D., Kim, D., Vasil'ev, V.P., Ko, M.-H. & Won, Y.-J. (2016): Cobitis nalbanti, a new species of spined loach from South Korea, and redescription of Cobitis lutheri (Teleostei: Cobitidae). Zootaxa, 4208 (6): 577-591.
- Nakajima, J. & Suzawa, Y. (2015): Cobitis sakahoko, a new species of spined loach (Cypriniformes: Cobitidae) from southern Kyushu Island, Japan. Ichthyological Research, 63 (1): 68–78.
- Eagderi, S., Jouladeh-Roudbar, A., Jalili, P., Sayyadzadeh, G. & Esmaeili, H.R. (2017): Taxonomic status of the genus Cobitis Linnaeus, 1758 (Teleostei: Cobitidae) in the southern Caspian Sea basin, Iran with description of a new species. FishTaxa, 2 (1): 48-61.
- Nakajima, J. (2016): Cobitis takenoi sp. n. (Cypriniformes, Cobitidae): a new spined loach from Honshu Island, Japan. ZooKeys, 568: 119–128.
