Botiidae

Chromobotia macracanthus only one in Chromobotia

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Cobitoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Craniata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis/Superclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Otomorpha Subcohors: Ostariophysi Series: Otophysi Ordo: Cypriniformes Superfamilia: Cobitoidea

Familia: Botiidae
Genera (8): Ambastaia – Botia – Chromobotia – Leptobotia – Parabotia – Sinibotia – Syncrossus – Yasuhikotakia

Name

Botiidae Berg, 1940

• Type genus: Botia Gray, 1831

Vernacular names

English: Loaches
日本語: ドジョウ科
ไทย: ปลาหมู, ปลาแข่วไก้

Synonyms

• Botiinae Berg, 1940
• Leptobotiini Nalbant, 2002

References

• Berg, L. S.; 1940: Classification of fishes, both recent and fossil. Trudy Zoologiceskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR, 5 (2): 87–517. [In Russian pp. 87–345; in English pp. 345–500] [Reprinted 1947 by Edwards, Ann Arbor; English title of translation as above, Russian title actually: Classification of the ichthyoides and fishes, both living and fossils].
• Betancur-R., R., Broughton, R.E., Wiley, E.O., Carpenter, K., Andrés López, J., Li, C., Holcroft, N.I., Arcila, D., Sanciangco, M., Cureton II, J.C., Zhang, F., Buser, T., Campbell, M.A., Ballesteros, J.A., Roa-Varon, A., Willis, S., Borden, W.C., Rowley, T., Reneau, P.C., Hough, D.J., Lu, G., Grande, T., Arratia, G. & Ortí, G. 2013. The tree of life and a new classification of bony fishes. (PDF) PLOS Currents Tree of Life 2013 Apr 18: 1–45, downloadable Appendix 2 (new classification): 1–21, and downloadable Figure S1 (complete cladogram with annotated classification). DOI: 10.1371/currents.tol.53ba26640df0ccaee75bb165c8c26288 Reference page. 
• Gray, J. E.; 1831: Description of twelve new genera of fish, discovered by Gen. Hardwicke, in India, the greater part in the British Museum. The Zoological Miscellany, 1831: 7–9.
• Kano, Y., Nakajima, J., Yamasaki, T., Kitamura, J-I. & Tabata, R. 2018. Photo images, 3D models and CT scanned data of loaches (Botiidae, Cobitidae and Nemacheilidae) of Japan. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.6.e26265 Reference page. 
• Kottelat, M. 2012. Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 26(Supplement 26): 1–199. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Nalbant, T. T.; 2002: Sixty million years of evolution. Part one: family Botiidae (Pisces: Ostariophysi: Cobitoidea). Travaux du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa”, 44: 309–333.
• Šlechtová, V., Bohlen, J., Freyhof, J. & Ráb, P.; 2006: Molecular phylogeny of the Southeast Asian freshwater fish family Botiidae (Teleostei: Cobitoidea) and the origin of polyploidy in their evolution. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 39 (2): 529–541. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2005.09.018