Paracanthocobitis is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Nemacheilidae, the stone loaches. This genus is known from the Indus basin in Pakistan to the Mekong basin of Cambodia and Laos The type species is Paracanthocobitis zonalternans. Some authorities treat this as a subgenus of Acanthocobitis
Species
These are the currently recognised species in this genus:
- Paracanthocobitis abutwebi <small>R. A. Singer & Page, 2015</small> (Hillstream zipper loach)
- Paracanthocobitis adelaideae <small>Singer & Page, 2015</small> (Checkerboard zipper loach)
- Paracanthocobitis aurea <small>(Day, 1872)</small> (Barred zipper loach)
- Paracanthocobitis botia <small>(Hamilton, 1822)</small> (mottled zipper loach)
- Paracanthocobitis canicula <small>Singer & Page, 2015</small> (Houndstooth zipper loach)
- Paracanthocobitis epimekes <small>DvoÃ
Âák, Bohlen, Kottelat & Ã
 lechtová, 2022</small>
- Paracanthocobitis hijumensis <small>Rime, Tamang & Das, 2022</small>
- Paracanthocobitis linypha <small>Singer & Page, 2015</small> (Sewing needle zipper loach)
- Paracanthocobitis mackenziei <small>(B. L. Chaudhuri, 1910)</small> (Robust zipper loach)
- Paracanthocobitis maekhlongensis <small>Singer & Page, 2015</small> (Maekhlong zipper loach)
- Paracanthocobitis mandalayensis <small>(Rendahl, 1948)</small> (Mandalay zipper loach)
- Paracanthocobitis marmorata Singer, Pfeiffer & Page 2017 (Marmorated zipper loach)
- Paracanthocobitis mooreh <small>(Sykes, 1839)</small> (Maharashtra zipper loach)
- Paracanthocobitis nigrolineata <small>Singer, Pfeiffer & Page, 2017</small>
- Paracanthocobitis phuketensis <small>(Klausewitz, 1957)</small>
- Paracanthocobitis pictilis <small>(Kottelat, 2012)</small> (Ataran zipper loach)
- Paracanthocobitis putaoensis <small>Lin, Chen & Chen, 2023</small>
- Paracanthocobitis rubidipinnis <small>(Blyth 1860)</small> (Cherryfin zipper loach)
- Paracanthocobitis triangula <small>Singer, Pfeiffer & Page, 2017</small>
- Paracanthocobitis urophthalma <small>(Günther, 1868)</small> (Banded mountain zipper loach)
- Paracanthocobitis zonalternans <small>(Blyth, 1860)</small> (Dwarf zipper loach)
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