Leptobotia Explained

Leptobotia is a genus of fish in the family Botiidae endemic to China.^[1]

Species

There are currently 21 recognized species in this genus. In addition to these, Parabotia curtus was formerly included in Leptobotia.^[1]

• Leptobotia bellacauda Bohlen & Šlechtová, 2016
• Leptobotia brachycephala D.-M. Guo, E. Zhang, 2021^[2]
• Leptobotia citrauratea (Nichols, 1925)
• Leptobotia compressicauda (Nichols, 1931)
• Leptobotia elongata (Bleeker, 1870)
• Leptobotia flavolineata H.-Y. Wang, 1981
• Leptobotia guilinensis J.-X. Chen, 1980
• Leptobotia hansuiensis S.-M. Fang & T.-C.Hsu, 1980
• Leptobotia hengyangensis Huang, H.& Zhang, W., 1986
• Leptobotia micra Bohlen & Slechtová, 2017
• Leptobotia microphthalma T.-Y. Fu & M.-R.Ye, 1983
• Leptobotia orientalis T.-Q. Xu, S.-M. Fang & H.-Y. Wang, 1981
• Leptobotia pellegrini P.-W. Fang, 1936
• Leptobotia posterodorsalis Lan & J.-X. Chen, 1992
• Leptobotia rotundilobus D.-M. Guo, Cao & E. Zhang, 2023
• Leptobotia punctata J. Li, X.-H. Li & X.-L. Chen, 2008
• Leptobotia rubrilabris (Dabry de Thiersant, 1872)
• Leptobotia taeniops (Sauvage, 1878)
• Leptobotia tchangi P.-W. Fang, 1936
• Leptobotia tientainensis (H.-W. Wu, 1930)
• Leptobotia zebra (H.-W. Wu, 1939)

Notes and References

1. Kottelat, M. (2012): Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. No. 26: 1-199.
2. Guo D-M, Zhang E (2021) Re-description of the loach species Leptobotia citrauratea (Teleostei, Botiidae), with the description of L. brachycephala from southern Zhejiang Province, China. ZooKeys 1017: 89-109. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1017.57503