60 Species in Family Botiidae
Nominal species list for Botiidae
Scientific Name Author English Name
Ambastaia nigrolineata (Kottelat & Chu, 1987)
Ambastaia sidthimunki (Klausewitz, 1959) Dwarf botia
Botia dario (Hamilton, 1822) Bengal loach
Botia histrionica Blyth, 1860 Loach
Botia kubotai Kottelat, 2004
Botia lohachata Chaudhuri, 1912 Reticulate loach
Botia rostrata Günther, 1868 Gangetic loach
Botia striata Narayan Rao, 1920 Zebra loach
Botia udomritthiruji Ng, 2007
Botia almorhae Gray, 1831 Almorha loach
Botia birdi Chaudhuri, 1909 Birdi loach
Chromobotia macracanthus (Bleeker, 1852) Clown loach
Leptobotia bellacauda Bohlen & Slechtová, 2016
Leptobotia brachycephala Guo & Zhang, 2021
Leptobotia citrauratea (Nichols, 1925)
Leptobotia elongata (Bleeker, 1870)
Leptobotia flavolineata Wang, 1981
Leptobotia guilinensis Chen, 1980
Leptobotia hengyangensis Huang & Zhang, 1986
Leptobotia micra Bohlen & Slechtová, 2017
Leptobotia microphthalma Fu & Ye, 1983
Leptobotia orientalis Xu, Fang & Wang, 1981
Leptobotia pellegrini Fang, 1936
Leptobotia posterodorsalis Lan & Chen, 1992
Leptobotia punctata Li, Li & Chen, 2008
Leptobotia rubrilabris (Dabry de Thiersant, 1872)
Leptobotia taeniops (Sauvage, 1878)
Leptobotia tchangi Fang, 1936
Leptobotia tientainensis (Wu, 1930)
Parabotia banarescui (Nalbant, 1965)
Parabotia bimaculatus Chen, 1980
Parabotia brevirostris Zhu & Zhu, 2012
Parabotia curtus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) Kissing loach
Parabotia dubius Kottelat, 2001
Parabotia fasciatus Dabry de Thiersant, 1872
Parabotia kiangsiensis Liu & Guo, 1986
Parabotia kimluani Nguyen, 2005
Parabotia lijiangensis Chen, 1980
Parabotia maculosus (Wu, 1939)
Parabotia mantschuricus (Berg, 1907) Manchurian spiny loach
Parabotia parvus Chen, 1980
Parabotia vancuongi Nguyen, 2005
Sinibotia longiventralis (Yang & Chen, 1992)
Sinibotia pulchra (Wu, 1939)
Sinibotia reevesae (Chang, 1944)
Sinibotia robusta (Wu, 1939)
Sinibotia superciliaris (Günther, 1892)
Sinibotia zebra (Wu, 1939)
Syncrossus beauforti (Smith, 1931) Chameleon loach
Syncrossus berdmorei Blyth, 1860 Blyth's loach
Syncrossus helodes (Sauvage, 1876) Tiger botia
Syncrossus hymenophysa (Bleeker, 1852) Tiger loach
Syncrossus reversus (Roberts, 1989)
Yasuhikotakia caudipunctata (Taki & Doi, 1995)
Yasuhikotakia eos (Taki, 1972) Sun loach
Yasuhikotakia lecontei (Fowler, 1937) Silver loach
Yasuhikotakia longidorsalis (Taki & Doi, 1995)
Yasuhikotakia modesta (Bleeker, 1864) Redtail botia
Yasuhikotakia morleti (Tirant, 1885) Skunk botia
Yasuhikotakia splendida (Roberts, 1995)
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