Cobitidae

Spined loaches

232 species

1. 1Acanthopsoides delphax Siebert, 1991fresh · tropical
2. 2Acanthopsoides gracilentus (Smith, 1945)fresh · tropical
3. 3Acanthopsoides gracilis Fowler, 1934fresh · tropical
4. 4Acanthopsoides hapalias Siebert, 1991fresh · tropical
5. 5Acanthopsoides molobrion Siebert, 1991fresh · tropical
6. 6Acanthopsoides namromensis Nguyen, 2005fresh · tropical
7. 7Acanthopsoides robertsi Siebert, 1991fresh · tropical
8. 8Acantopsis dialuzona Van Hasselt, 1823fresh · tropical
9. 9Acantopsis dinema Boyd & Page, 2017 · Peppered horseface loachfresh · tropical
10. 10Acantopsis ioa Boyd & Page, 2017 · Slender horseface loachfresh · tropical
11. 11Acantopsis multistigmatus Vishwanath & Laisram, 2005fresh · tropical
12. 12Acantopsis octoactinotos Siebert, 1991fresh · tropical
13. 13Acantopsis rungthipae Boyd, Nithirojpakdee & Page, 2017 · Piebald horseface loachfresh · tropical
14. 14Acantopsis spectabilis (Blyth, 1860)fresh · tropical
15. 15Acantopsis thiemmedhi Sontirat, 1999fresh · tropical
16. 16Bibarba bibarba Chen & Chen, 2007fresh · tropical
17. 17Bibarba parvoculus Wu, Yang & Xiu, 2015fresh · subtropical
18. 18Canthophrys gongota (Hamilton, 1822) · Gongota loachfresh · tropical
19. 19Cobitis afifeae Freyhof, Bayçelebi & Geiger, 2018fresh · subtropical
20. 20Cobitis albicoloris Chichkoff, 1932fresh · temperate
21. 21Cobitis aliyeae Freyhof, Bayçelebi & Geiger, 2018fresh · subtropical
22. 22Cobitis amphilekta Vasil'eva & Vasil'ev, 2012fresh · temperate
23. 23Cobitis anabelae Freyhof, Bayçelebi & Geiger, 2018fresh · subtropical
24. 24Cobitis arachthosensis Economidis & Nalbant, 1996fresh · temperate
25. 25Cobitis arenae (Lin, 1934)fresh · subtropical
26. 26Cobitis australis Chen, Chen & He, 2013fresh · subtropical
27. 27Cobitis avicennae Mousavi-Sabet, Vatandoust, Esmaeili, Geiger & Freyhof, 2015 · Zagros spined loachfresh · subtropical
28. 28Cobitis battalgilae Băcescu, 1962 · Battalgil spined loachfresh · subtropical
29. 29Cobitis beijingensis Sun & Zhao, 2025fresh · temperate · newer than the 2023 backbone
30. 30Cobitis bilineata Canestrini, 1865fresh · temperate
31. 31Cobitis bilseli Battalgil, 1942 · Beysehir spined loachfresh · temperate
32. 32Cobitis biwae Jordan & Snyder, 1901fresh · temperate
33. 33Cobitis brachysoma Chen & Chen, 2018fresh · subtropical
34. 34Cobitis brevipinna (Chen & Chen, 2017)fresh · subtropical
35. 35Cobitis calderoni Băcescu, 1962 · Lamprehuelafresh · temperate
36. 36Cobitis choii Kim & Son, 1984 · Choi's spiny loachfresh · subtropical
37. 37Cobitis crassicauda Chen & Chen, 2013fresh · subtropical
38. 38Cobitis dalmatina Karaman, 1928fresh · temperate
39. 39Cobitis damlae Erk'akan & Özdemir, 2014 · Dalaman spined loachfresh · subtropical
40. 40Cobitis dolichorhynchus Nichols, 1918fresh · temperate
41. 41Cobitis dorademiri Erk'akan, Özdemir & Özeren, 2017fresh · subtropical
42. 42Cobitis elazigensis Coad & Sarieyyüpoglu, 1988 · Tigris spined loachfresh · subtropical
43. 43Cobitis elongata Heckel & Kner, 1858fresh · temperate
44. 44Cobitis elongatoides Băcescu & Mayer, 1969fresh · temperate
45. 45Cobitis emrei Freyhof, Bayçelebi & Geiger, 2018fresh · subtropical
46. 46Cobitis erkakanae Freyhof, Bayçelebi & Geiger, 2018fresh · subtropical
47. 47Cobitis evreni Erk'akan, Özeren & Nalbant, 2008 · Ceyhan spined loachfresh · temperate
48. 48Cobitis fahireae Erk'akan, Atalay-Ekmekçi & Nalbant, 1998 · Küçük Menderes spined loachfresh · temperate
49. 49Cobitis faridpaki Mousavi-Sabet, Vasil'eva, Vatandoust & Vasil'ev, 2011fresh · subtropical
50. 50Cobitis fasciola Chen & Chen, 2013fresh · subtropical
51. 51Cobitis feroniae Novaga, Bellucci, Geiger & Freyhof, 2024 · Pontine spined loachfresh · temperate
52. 52Cobitis fimbriata (Chen & Chen, 2017)fresh · subtropical
53. 53Cobitis gladkovi Vasil'ev & Vasil'eva, 2008fresh · brackish · temperate
54. 54Cobitis gracilis Chen & Chen, 2016fresh · subtropical
55. 55Cobitis guttata (Nguyen, 2005)fresh · tropical
56. 56Cobitis hankugensis Kim, Park, Son & Nalbant, 2003fresh · temperate
57. 57Cobitis hellenica Economidis & Nalbant, 1996fresh · subtropical
58. 58Cobitis herzegoviniensis Buj & Šanda, 2014fresh · temperate
59. 59Cobitis illyrica Freyhof & Stelbrink, 2007fresh · temperate
60. 60Cobitis jadovaensis Mustafic & Mrakovčić, 2008fresh · temperate
61. 61Cobitis joergbohleni Freyhof, Bayçelebi & Geiger, 2018fresh · subtropical
62. 62Cobitis kaibarai Nakajima, 2012fresh · tropical
63. 63Cobitis kellei Erk'akan, Atalay-Ekmekçi & Nalbant, 1998 · Göksü spined loachfresh · temperate
64. 64Cobitis keyvani Mousavi-Sabet, Yerli, Vatandoust, Özeren & Moradkhani, 2012fresh · temperate
65. 65Cobitis kurui Erk'akan, Atalay-Ekmekçi & Nalbant, 1998fresh · subtropical
66. 66Cobitis laoensis (Sauvage, 1878)fresh · tropical
67. 67Cobitis lebedevi Vasil'eva & Vasil'ev, 1985fresh · temperate
68. 68Cobitis leptosoma Chen, Sui, He & Chen, 2015fresh · subtropical
69. 69Cobitis levantina Krupp & Moubayed, 1992 · Orontes spined loachfresh · subtropical
70. 70Cobitis linea (Heckel, 1847)fresh · subtropical
71. 71Cobitis longitaeniatus Ngô, 2008fresh · tropical
72. 72Cobitis lutheri Rendahl, 1935 · Luther's spiny loachfresh · temperate
73. 73Cobitis macrostigma Dabry de Thiersant, 1872fresh · subtropical
74. 74Cobitis magnostriata Nakajima, 2012fresh · tropical
75. 75Cobitis maroccana Pellegrin, 1929fresh · temperate
76. 76Cobitis matsubarae Okada & Ikeda, 1939fresh · temperate
77. 77Cobitis megaspila Nalbant, 1993fresh · temperate
78. 78Cobitis melanoleuca Nichols, 1925fresh · temperate
79. 79Cobitis meridionalis Karaman, 1924fresh · subtropical
80. 80Cobitis microcephala Chen & Chen, 2011fresh · tropical
81. 81Cobitis minamorii Nakajima, 2012fresh · subtropical
82. 82Cobitis multimaculata Chen & Chen, 2011fresh · tropical
83. 83Cobitis narentana Karaman, 1928fresh · temperate
84. 84Cobitis nigrolinea (Chen & Chen, 2017)fresh · subtropical
85. 85Cobitis nuicocensis Nguyen & Vo, 2005fresh · tropical
86. 86Cobitis obtusirostra Chen, Sui, He & Chen, 2015fresh · subtropical
87. 87Cobitis ohridana Karaman, 1928fresh · temperate
88. 88Cobitis oxycephala Chen & Chen, 2018fresh · subtropical
89. 89Cobitis pacifica Kim, Park & Nalbant, 1999fresh · temperate
90. 90Cobitis paludica (de Buen, 1930) · Rabosetafresh · temperate
91. 91Cobitis phongnhaensis Ngô, 2008fresh · tropical
92. 92Cobitis phrygica Battalgazi, 1944 · Aci spined loachfresh · brackish · subtropical
93. 93Cobitis pirii Freyhof, Bayçelebi & Geiger, 2018fresh · subtropical
94. 94Cobitis pontica Vasil'eva & Vasil'ev, 2006 · Pontic spined loachfresh · temperate
95. 95Cobitis puncticulata Erk'akan, Atalay-Ekmekçi & Nalbant, 1998 · Spotted spined loachfresh · temperate
96. 96Cobitis punctilineata Economidis & Nalbant, 1996fresh · subtropical
97. 97Cobitis qujiangensis (Chen & Chen, 2017)fresh · subtropical
98. 98Cobitis rara Chen, 1981fresh · subtropical
99. 99Cobitis rhodopensis Vassilev, 1998fresh · temperate
100. 100Cobitis sakahoko Nakajima & Suzawa, 2015fresh · subtropical
101. 101Cobitis satunini Gladkov, 1935fresh · temperate
102. 102Cobitis shikokuensis Suzawa, 2006fresh · subtropical
103. 103Cobitis sibirica Gladkov, 1935fresh · temperate
104. 104Cobitis simplicispina Hankó, 1925 · Sakarya spined loachfresh · subtropical
105. 105Cobitis sinensis Sauvage & Dabry de Thiersant, 1874 · Siberian spiny loachfresh · subtropical
106. 106Cobitis sipahilerae Erk'akan, Özdemir & Özeren, 2017fresh · subtropical
107. 107Cobitis splendens Erk'akan, Atalay-Ekmekçi & Nalbant, 1998 · Splendid spined loachfresh · temperate
108. 108Cobitis squataeniatus Ngô, 2008fresh · tropical
109. 109Cobitis stenocauda Chen & Chen, 2013fresh · subtropical
110. 110Cobitis stephanidisi Economidis, 1992fresh · temperate
111. 111Cobitis striata Ikeda, 1936fresh · temperate
112. 112Cobitis strumicae Karaman, 1955 · Bulgarian spined loachfresh · brackish · subtropical
113. 113Cobitis taenia Linnaeus, 1758 · Spined loachfresh · temperate
114. 114Cobitis takatsuensis Mizuno, 1970fresh · temperate
115. 115Cobitis takenoi Nakajima, 2016fresh · subtropical
116. 116Cobitis tanaitica Băcescu & Mayer, 1969fresh · temperate
117. 117Cobitis taurica Vasil'eva, Vasil'ev, Janko, Ráb & Rábová, 2005fresh · temperate
118. 118Cobitis tetralineata Kim, Park & Nalbant, 1999fresh · temperate
119. 119Cobitis trichonica Stephanidis, 1974fresh · subtropical
120. 120Cobitis troasensis Freyhof, Bayçelebi & Geiger, 2018fresh · subtropical
121. 121Cobitis turcica Hankó, 1925 · Turkish spined loachfresh · subtropical
122. 122Cobitis vardarensis Karaman, 1928 · Vardar spined loachfresh · brackish · subtropical
123. 123Cobitis vettonica Doadrio & Perdices, 1997fresh · subtropical
124. 124Cobitis wumingensis Chen, Sui, He & Chen, 2015fresh · subtropical
125. 125Cobitis ylengensis Ngô, 2003fresh · tropical
126. 126Cobitis zanandreai Cavicchioli, 1965fresh · subtropical
127. 127Cobitis zhejiangensis Son & He, 2005fresh · tropical
128. 128Iksookimia hugowolfeldi Nalbant, 1993fresh · temperate
129. 129Iksookimia koreensis (Kim, 1975)fresh · temperate
130. 130Iksookimia longicorpa (Kim, Choi & Nalbant, 1976)fresh · temperate
131. 131Iksookimia pumila (Kim & Lee, 1987) · Puan spine loachfresh · temperate
132. 132Iksookimia yongdokensis Kim & Park, 1997fresh · temperate
133. 133Kichulchoia brevifasciata (Kim & Lee, 1995)fresh · temperate
134. 134Koreocobitis naktongensis Kim, Park & Nalbant, 2000fresh · subtropical
135. 135Koreocobitis rotundicaudata (Wakiya & Mori, 1929) · White nose loachfresh · temperate
136. 136Kottelatlimia hipporhynchos Kottelat & Tan, 2008fresh · tropical
137. 137Kottelatlimia katik (Kottelat & Lim, 1992)fresh · tropical
138. 138Kottelatlimia pristes (Roberts, 1989)fresh · tropical
139. 139Lepidocephalichthys alkaia Havird & Page, 2010fresh · tropical
140. 140Lepidocephalichthys annandalei Chaudhuri, 1912 · Annandale loachfresh · subtropical
141. 141Lepidocephalichthys arunachalensis (Datta & Barman, 1984)fresh · subtropical
142. 142Lepidocephalichthys barbatuloides (Bleeker, 1851)fresh · tropical
143. 143Lepidocephalichthys berdmorei (Blyth, 1860) · Burmese loachfresh · tropical
144. 144Lepidocephalichthys birmanicus (Rendahl, 1948)fresh · tropical
145. 145Lepidocephalichthys coromandelensis (Menon, 1992)fresh · tropical
146. 146Lepidocephalichthys eleios Kottelat, 2017fresh · tropical
147. 147Lepidocephalichthys furcatus (de Beaufort, 1933)fresh · tropical
148. 148Lepidocephalichthys goalparensis Pillai & Yazdani, 1976fresh · subtropical
149. 149Lepidocephalichthys guntea (Hamilton, 1822) · Guntea loachfresh · brackish · tropical
150. 150Lepidocephalichthys hasselti (Valenciennes, 1846)fresh · tropical
151. 151Lepidocephalichthys irrorata Hora, 1921 · Loktak loachfresh · tropical
152. 152Lepidocephalichthys jonklaasi (Deraniyagala, 1956) · Jonklaas' s loachfresh · tropical
153. 153Lepidocephalichthys kranos Havird & Page, 2010fresh · tropical
154. 154Lepidocephalichthys lorentzi (Weber & de Beaufort, 1916)fresh · tropical
155. 155Lepidocephalichthys manipurensis Arunkumar, 2000 · Yu loachfresh · tropical
156. 156Lepidocephalichthys micropogon (Blyth, 1860)fresh · tropical
157. 157Lepidocephalichthys thermalis (Valenciennes, 1846) · Common spiny loachfresh · tropical
158. 158Lepidocephalichthys tomaculum Kottelat & Lim, 1992fresh · tropical
159. 159Lepidocephalichthys zeppelini Havird & Tangjitjaroen, 2010fresh · tropical
160. 160Lepidocephalus macrochir (Bleeker, 1854)fresh · tropical
161. 161Lepidocephalus nanensis Deein, Tangjitjaroen & Page, 2014fresh · tropical
162. 162Lepidocephalus spectrum Roberts, 1989fresh · tropical
163. 163Microcobitis misgurnoides (Rendahl, 1944)fresh · tropical
164. 164Misgurnus anguillicaudatus (Cantor, 1842) · Pond loachfresh · subtropical
165. 165Misgurnus buphoensis Kim & Park, 1995fresh · temperate
166. 166Misgurnus dabryanus (Guichenot, 1872)fresh · brackish · subtropical
167. 167Misgurnus fossilis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Weatherfishfresh · brackish · temperate
168. 168Misgurnus mizolepis Günther, 1888 · Chinese muddy loachfresh · subtropical
169. 169Misgurnus mohoity (Dybowski, 1869)fresh · temperate
170. 170Misgurnus multimaculatus Rendahl, 1944fresh · tropical
171. 171Misgurnus nikolskyi Vasil'eva, 2001fresh · temperate
172. 172Misgurnus tonkinensis Rendahl, 1937fresh · tropical
173. 173Neoeucirrhichthys maydelli Bănărescu & Nalbant, 1968 · Goalpara loachfresh · tropical
174. 174Niwaella delicata (Niwa, 1937)fresh · temperate
175. 175Niwaella laterimaculata (Yan & Zheng, 1984)fresh · temperate
176. 176Niwaella longibarba Chen & Chen, 2005fresh · subtropical
177. 177Niwaella multifasciata (Wakiya & Mori, 1929)fresh · temperate
178. 178Niwaella xinjiangensis Chen & Chen, 2005fresh · tropical
179. 179Pangio agma (Burridge, 1992)fresh · tropical
180. 180Pangio alcoides Kottelat & Lim, 1993fresh · tropical
181. 181Pangio alternans Kottelat & Lim, 1993fresh · tropical
182. 182Pangio ammophila Britz, Ali & Raghavan, 2012fresh · tropical
183. 183Pangio anguillaris (Vaillant, 1902)fresh · tropical
184. 184Pangio apoda Britz & Maclaine, 2007fresh · tropical
185. 185Pangio atactos Tan & Kottelat, 2009fresh · tropical
186. 186Pangio bhujia Anoop, Britz, Arjun, Dahanukar & Raghavan, 2019fresh · tropical
187. 187Pangio bitaimac Tan & Kottelat, 2009fresh · tropical
188. 188Pangio borneensis (Boulenger, 1894)fresh · tropical
189. 189Pangio cuneovirgata (Raut, 1957)fresh · tropical
190. 190Pangio doriae (Perugia, 1892)fresh · tropical
191. 191Pangio elongata Britz & Maclaine, 2007fresh · tropical
192. 192Pangio filinaris Kottelat & Lim, 1993fresh · tropical
193. 193Pangio fusca (Blyth, 1860)fresh · tropical
194. 194Pangio goaensis (Tilak, 1972) · Indian coolie-loachfresh · tropical
195. 195Pangio incognito Kottelat & Lim, 1993fresh · tropical
196. 196Pangio kuhlii (Valenciennes, 1846) · Coolie loachfresh · tropical
197. 197Pangio lidi Hadiaty & Kottelat, 2009fresh · tropical
198. 198Pangio longimanus Britz & Kottelat, 2010fresh · tropical
199. 199Pangio longipinnis (Menon, 1992)fresh · tropical
200. 200Pangio lumbriciformis Britz & Maclaine, 2007fresh · tropical
201. 201Pangio malayana (Tweedie, 1956)fresh · tropical
202. 202Pangio mariarum (Inger & Chin, 1962)fresh · tropical
203. 203Pangio muraeniformis (de Beaufort, 1933)fresh · brackish · tropical
204. 204Pangio myersi (Harry, 1949)fresh · tropical
205. 205Pangio oblonga (Valenciennes, 1846) · Java loachfresh · tropical
206. 206Pangio pangia (Hamilton, 1822)fresh · tropical
207. 207Pangio pathala Sundar, Arjun, Sidharthan, Dahanukar & Raghavan 2022fresh · tropical
208. 208Pangio piperata Kottelat & Lim, 1993fresh · tropical
209. 209Pangio pulla Kottelat & Lim, 1993fresh · tropical
210. 210Pangio robiginosa (Raut, 1957)fresh · tropical
211. 211Pangio semicincta (Fraser-Brunner, 1940)fresh · tropical
212. 212Pangio shelfordii (Popta, 1903) · Borneo loachfresh · tropical
213. 213Pangio signicauda Britz & Maclaine, 2007fresh · tropical
214. 214Pangio superba (Roberts, 1989)fresh · tropical
215. 215Paralepidocephalus guishanensis Li, 2004fresh · tropical
216. 216Paralepidocephalus yui Tchang, 1935fresh · subtropical
217. 217Protocobitis anteroventris Lan, 2013fresh · subtropical
218. 218Protocobitis longibarba Qin, Liu, Zhang, Shi, Du & Zhou, 2025 · Long-barbal protocobitisfresh · temperate · newer than the 2023 backbone
219. 219Protocobitis polylepis Zhu, Lü, Yang & Zhang, 2008fresh · tropical
220. 220Protocobitis typhlops Yang, Chen & Lan, 1993fresh · subtropical
221. 221Sabanejewia aurata (De Filippi, 1863) · Golden spined loachfresh · temperate
222. 222Sabanejewia balcanica (Karaman, 1922) · Balcan spined loachfresh · brackish · temperate
223. 223Sabanejewia baltica Witkowski, 1994fresh · temperate
224. 224Sabanejewia bulgarica (Drensky, 1928)fresh · temperate
225. 225Sabanejewia caspia (Eichwald, 1838) · Caspian spined loachfresh · brackish · temperate
226. 226Sabanejewia caucasica (Berg, 1906) · Ciscaucasian spined loachfresh · temperate
227. 227Sabanejewia kubanica Vasil'eva & Vasil'ev, 1988fresh · boreal
228. 228Sabanejewia larvata (De Filippi, 1859)fresh · temperate
229. 229Sabanejewia maeotica Vasil'eva & Vasil'ev, 2023 · Azov golden loachfresh · temperate
230. 230Sabanejewia romanica (Băcescu, 1943)fresh · temperate
231. 231Sabanejewia vallachica (Nalbant, 1957) · Eastern Carpathian golden loachfresh · temperate
232. 232Theriodes sandakanensis (Inger & Chin, 1962)fresh · tropical

Source: FishBase v25.04 (fishbase.org), via cboettig/fishbase, fetched 2026-10-18.