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.
Species
There are currently 97 recognized species in this genus:
- Cobitis amphilekta <small>Vasil'eva & Vasil'ev, 2012</small> (Khvalyn spined loach)
- Cobitis arachthosensis <small>Economidis & Nalbant, 1996</small>
- Cobitis arenae <small>(S. Y. Lin, 1934)</small>
- Cobitis australis <small>Y. X. Chen, Y. F. Chen & D. K. He, 2013</small>
- Cobitis avicennae <small>Mousavi-Sabet, Vatandoust, Esmaeili, Geiger & Freyhof, 2015</small> (Zagros spined loach)
- Cobitis baishagensis <small>Y. X. Chen, X. Y. Sui, N. Liang & Y. F. Chen, 2015</small>
- Cobitis battalgilae <small>BÃÂcescu, 1962</small> (Battalgil's spined loach)
- Cobitis bilineata <small>Canestrini, 1865</small>
- Cobitis bilseli <small>Battalgil, 1942</small> (BeyÃ
Âehir spined loach)
- Cobitis biwae <small>D. S. Jordan & Snyder, 1901</small>
- Cobitis brevifasciata <small>(I. S. Kim & W. O. Lee, 1995)</small>
- Cobitis calderoni <small>BÃÂcescu, 1962</small>
- Cobitis choii <small>I. S. Kim & Y. M. Son, 1984</small> (Choi's spined loach)
- Cobitis crassicauda <small>Y. X. Chen & Y. F. Chen, 2013</small>
- Cobitis dalmatina <small>S. L. Karaman, 1928</small>
- Cobitis damlae <small>Erk' Akan & ÃÂzdemir, 2014</small> (Dalaman spined loach)
- Cobitis delicata <small>Niwa, 1937</small>
- Cobitis dolichorhynchus <small>Nichols, 1918</small>
- Cobitis dorademiri <small>Erk' Akan, ÃÂzdemir & ÃÂzeren, 2017</small>
- Cobitis elazigensis <small>Coad & Sarñeyyüpoglu, 1988</small> (Tigris spined loach)
- Cobitis elongata <small>Heckel & Kner, 1857</small>
- Cobitis elongatoides <small>BÃÂcescu & R. F. Mayer, 1969</small>
- Cobitis evreni <small>Erk' Akan, ÃÂzeren & Nalbant, 2008</small> (Ceyhan spined loach)
- Cobitis fahireae <small>Erk' Akan, Ekmekçi & Nalbant, 1998</small> (Küçük Menderes spined loach)
- Cobitis faridpaki <small>Mousavi-Sabet, Vasil'eva, Vatandoust & Vasil'ev, 2011</small>
- Cobitis fasciola <small>Y. X. Chen & Y. F. Chen, 2013</small>
- Cobitis gladkovi <small>Vasil'ev & Vasil'eva, 2008</small>
- Cobitis gracilis <small>Y. X. Chen & Y. F. Chen, 2016</small>
- Cobitis guttatus <small>(V. H. Nguyá»Â
n, 2005)</small>
- Cobitis hankugensis <small>I. S. Kim, J. Y. Park, Y. M. Son & Nalbant, 2003</small>
- Cobitis hellenica <small>Economidis & Nalbant, 1996</small>
- Cobitis hereromacula <small>Y. X. Chen, X. Y. Sui, N. Liang & Y. F. Chen, 2015</small>
- Cobitis herzegoviniensis <small>Buj & Ã
 anda, 2014</small>
- Cobitis hugowolfeldi <small>(Nalbant, 1993)</small>
- Cobitis illyrica <small>Freyhof & Stelbrink, 2007</small>
- Cobitis jadovaensis <small>MustafiÃÂ & MrakovÃÂiÃÂ, 2008</small>
- Cobitis kaibarai <small>Nakajima, 2012</small>
- Cobitis kellei <small>Erk' Akan, Ekmekçi & Nalbant, 1998</small> (Göksu spined loach)
- Cobitis koreensis <small>I. S. Kim, 1975</small>
- Cobitis laoensis <small>(Sauvage, 1878)</small>
- Cobitis laterimaculata <small>J. P. Yan & M. L. Zheng, 1984</small>
- Cobitis lebedevi <small>Vasil'eva & Vasil'ev, 1985</small>
- Cobitis levantina <small>Krupp & Moubayed-Breil, 1992</small> (Orontes spined loach)
- Cobitis linea <small>(Heckel, 1847)</small>
- Cobitis longibarba <small>(Y. F. Chen & Y. X. Chen, 2005)</small>
- Cobitis longicorpus <small>I. S. Kim, K. C. Choi & Nalbant, 1976</small>
- Cobitis lutheri <small>Rendahl (), 1935</small> (Luther's spined loach)
- Cobitis macrostigma <small>Dabry de Thiersant, 1872</small>
- Cobitis magnostriata <small>Nakajima, 2012</small>
- Cobitis maroccana Pellegrin, 1929
- Cobitis matsubarai <small>Okada & Ikeda, 1939</small>
- Cobitis megaspila <small>Nalbant, 1993</small>
- Cobitis melanoleuca <small>Nichols, 1925</small>
- Cobitis meridionalis <small>S. L. Karaman, 1924</small>
- Cobitis microcephala <small>Y. X. Chen & Y. F. Chen, 2011</small>
- Cobitis minamorii <small>Nakajima, 2012</small>
- Cobitis minhi <small>S. V. Ngô, 2008</small>
- Cobitis multifasciata <small>Wakiya & T. Mori, 1929</small>
- Cobitis multimaculata <small>Y. X. Chen & Y. F. Chen, 2011</small>
- Cobitis nalbanti <small>Vasil'eva, D. M. Kim, Vasil'ev, M. H. Ko & Y. J. Won, 2016</small> (Nalbant's spined loach)
- Cobitis narentana <small>S. L. Karaman, 1928</small>
- Cobitis ohridana <small>S. L. Karaman, 1928</small>
- Cobitis pacifica <small>I. S. Kim, J. Y. Park & Nalbant, 1999</small>
- Cobitis paludica <small>(F. de Buen, 1930)</small>
- Cobitis phrygica <small>Battalgazi, 1944</small> (Acñ spined loach)
- Cobitis pontica <small>Vasil'eva & Vasil'ev, 2006</small> (Pontic spined loach)
- Cobitis pumila <small>I. S. Kim & W. O. Lee, 1987</small> (Puan spined loach)
- Cobitis puncticulata <small>Erk' Akan, Ekmekçi & Nalbant, 1998</small> (Spotted spined loach)
- Cobitis punctilineata <small>Economidis & Nalbant, 1996</small>
- Cobitis rara <small>J. X. Chen, 1981</small>
- Cobitis sakahoko <small>Nakajima & Suzawa, 2015</small>
- Cobitis saniae <small>Eagderi, Jouladeh-Roudbar, Jalili, Sayyadzadeh & Esmaeili, 2017</small>
- Cobitis satunini <small>Gladkov, 1935</small>
- Cobitis shikokuensis <small>Suzawa, 2006</small>
- Cobitis sibirica <small>Gladkov, 1935</small>
- Cobitis simplicispina <small>Hankó (), 1925</small> (Sakarya spined loach)
- Cobitis sinensis <small>Sauvage & Dabry de Thiersant, 1874</small> (Siberian spined loach)
- Cobitis sipahilerae <small>Erk' Akan, ÃÂzdemir & ÃÂzeren, 2017</small>
- Cobitis splendens <small>Erk' Akan, Ekmekçi & Nalbant, 1998</small> (Splendid spined loach)
- Cobitis stenocauda <small>Y. X. Chen & Y. F. Chen, 2013</small>
- Cobitis stephanidisi <small>Economidis, 1992</small>
- Cobitis striata <small>Ikeda, 1936</small>
- Cobitis strumicae <small>S. L. Karaman, 1955</small> (Bulgarian spined loach)
- Cobitis taenia <small>Linnaeus, 1758</small> (Spined loach)
- Cobitis takatsuensis <small>Mizuno, 1970</small>
- Cobitis takenoi <small>Nakajima, 2016</small>
- Cobitis tanaitica <small>BÃÂcescu & R. F. Mayer, 1969</small>
- Cobitis taurica <small>Vasil'eva, Vasil'ev, Janko, Ráb & Rábová, 2005</small>
- Cobitis tetralineata <small>I. S. Kim, J. Y. Park & Nalbant, 1999</small>
- Cobitis trichonica <small>Stephanidis, 1974</small>
- Cobitis turcica <small>Hankó (), 1925</small> (Turkish spined loach)
- Cobitis vardarensis <small>S. L. Karaman, 1928</small> (Vardar spined loach)
- Cobitis vettonica <small>Doadrio & Perdices, 1997</small>
- Cobitis xinjiangensis <small>(Y. F. Chen & Y. X. Chen, 2005)</small>
- Cobitis ylengensis <small>S. V. Ngô, 2003</small>
- Cobitis yongdokensis <small>(I. S. Kim & J. Y. Park, 1997)</small>
- Cobitis zanandreai <small>Cavicchioli, 1965</small>
- Cobitis zhejiangensis <small>Y. M. Son & S. P. He, 2005</small>
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