FAMILY Cobitidae Swainson, 1838 - true loaches [=Cylindrosomes, Cobites, ?Acanthopsides, Acanthophthalminae, Misgurninae] GENUS Acantopsis van Hasselt, 1823 - horse-faced loaches [=Prostheacanthus] Species Acantopsis dialuzona van Hasselt, 1823 - horse-faced loach [=biaculeata, choerorhynchus, choirorhynchos, macrorhynchos] Species Acantopsis octoactinotos Siebert, 1991 - eyeline horse-faced loach Species Acantopsis spectabilis (Blyth, 1860) - Tenasserim horse-faced loach Species Acantopsis thiemmedhi Sontirat, 1999 - Thiemmedhi's horse-faced loach GENUS Aperioptus Richardson, 1848 - loaches Species Aperioptus delphax (Siebert, 1991) - Salween delphax loach Species Aperioptus gracilentus (Smith, 1945) - Meping aperioptus loach Species Aperioptus gracilis (Fowler, 1934) - gracile aperiotus loach Species Aperioptus hapalias (Siebert, 1991) - Phimai aperioptus loach Species Aperioptus molobrion (Siebert, 1991) - Bo River aperioptus loach Species Aperioptus pictorius Richardson, 1848 - pictorius loach Species Aperioptus robertsi (Siebert, 1991) - Empangau aperioptus loach GENUS Bibarba Chen & Chen, 2007 - loaches Species Bibarba bibarba Chen & Chen, 2007 - two barbed loach Species Bibarba parvoculus Wu et al., 2015 - Luocheng bibarba GENUS Canthophrys Swainson, 1838 - moose-faced loaches [=Somileptus] Species Canthophrys gongota (Hamilton, 1822) - moose-faced loach, Gongota loach [=albescens, amnicola, bispinosa, cucura, oculata] GENUS Cobitis Linnaeus, 1758 - spined loaches [=Acanestrinia, Acanthopsis, Acantophthalmus, Beyshehiria, Bicanestrinia, Choia, Cobitinula, Iberocobitis, Iksookimia, Kichulchoia, Niwaella] Species Cobitis amphilekta Vasil'eva & Vasil'ev, 2012 - Caspian Sea spined loach Species Cobitis arachthosensis Economidis & Nalbant, 1996 - Arachthos spined loach Species Cobitis arenae (Lin, 1934) - Western Lake spined loach Species Cobitis australis Chen et al., 2013 - Yougjiang spined loach Species Cobitis avicennae Mousavi-Sabat et al., 2015 - Zagros spined loach Species Cobitis baishagensis Chen et al., 2015 - Nandujiang spined loach Species Cobitis battalgili Bacescu, 1962 - Turkish spined loach Species Cobitis bilineata Canestrini, 1865 - Italian spined loach [=puta, septa] Species Cobitis bilseli Battalgil, 1942 - Great Beysehir spined loach Species Cobitis biwae Jordan & Snyder, 1901 - Japanese striped loach [=japonica, schlegeli] Species Cobitis brevifasciata (Kim & Lee, 1995) - Koup spined loach Species Cobitis calderoni Bacescu, 1962 - lamprehuela Species Cobitis choii Kim & Son, 1984 - Choi's spiny loach Species Cobitis crassicauda Chen & Chen, 2013 - fat-tailed loach Species Cobitis dalmatina Karaman, 1928 - Dalmatia loach Species Cobitis damlae Erkakan & Ozdemir, 2014 - damlae loach Species Cobitis delicata Niwa, 1937 - Ajime loach Species Cobitis dolichorhynchus Nichols, 1918 - Futsing loach Species Cobitis elazigensis Coad & Sarieyyüpoglu, 1988 - Elazig loach Species Cobitis elongata Heckel & Kner, 1857 - Balkan loach Species Cobitis elongatoides Bacescu & Maier, 1969 - Argesel loach [=danubialis] Species Cobitis evreni Erkakan et al., 2008 - Komur spined loach Species Cobitis fahirae Erkakan et al., 1998 - Kucuk loach Species Cobitis faridpaki Mousavi-Sabet et al., 2011 - Siahrud spined loach [=keyvani] Species Cobitis fasciola Chen & Chen, 2013 - Poyang loach Species Cobitis gracilis Chen & Chen, 2016 - gracile Yalu cobitis loach Species Cobitis granoei Rendahl, 1935 - Siberian spiny loach Species Cobitis guttatus (Nguyen, 2005) - Mu Creek spined loach Species Cobitis hankugensis Kim et al., 2003 - Dojeon-ri spined loach Species Cobitis hellenica Economidis & Nalbant, 1996 - Greek spined loach Species Cobitis hereromacula Chen et al., 2015 - Louhe spined loach Species Cobitis herzegoviniensis Buj & Sanda, in Buj et al., 2014 - Listica loach Species Cobitis hugowolfeldi (Nalbant, 1993) - Yung San River spined loach Species Cobitis illyrica Freyhof & Stelbrink, 2007 - Croatian loach Species Cobitis jadovaensis Mustafic & Mrakovcic, in Mustafic et al., 2008 - Jadova loach Species Cobitis kaibarai Nakajima, 2012 - Mitsuru spiny loach Species Cobitis kellei Erk'akan et al., 1998 - Goksu spiny loach Species Cobitis koreensis Kim, 1975 - Korean loach Species Cobitis laoensis (Sauvage, 1878) - Laotian spiny loach [=phongnhaensis] Species Cobitis laterimaculata Yan & Zheng, 1984 - Yongjiang River spined loach Species Cobitis lebedevi Vasil'eva & Vasil'ev, 1985 - Lebedev's loach Species Cobitis levantina Krupp & Moubayed, 1992 - Orontes spined loach Species Cobitis linea (Heckel, 1847) - Persepolis spined loach Species Cobitis longibarba (Chen & Chen, 2005) - longspined cobitis loach Species Cobitis longicorpus Kim et al., 1976 - Seomjin River spined loach Species Cobitis lutheri Rendahl, 1935 - sand spine loach Species Cobitis macrostigma Dabry de Thiersant, 1872 - Yangtze spined loach Species Cobitis magnostriata Nakajima, 2012 - Biwa spined loach Species Cobitis maroccana Pellegrin, 1929 - Moroccan spined loach Species Cobitis matsubarai Okada & Ikeda, 1939 - Matsubara's spined loach Species Cobitis megaspila Nalbant, 1993 - Danube spined cobitis loach Species Cobitis melanoleuca Nichols, 1925 - Chin-ssu spined loach [=gladkovi, granoei, olivai, sibirica] Species Cobitis meridionalis Karaman, 1924 - Prespa spined loach Species Cobitis microcephala Chen & Chen, 2011 - Nanliu spined loach Species Cobitis minamorii Nakajima, 2012 - Minamori's spined loach [=oumiensis, saninensis, tokaiensis, yodoensis] Species Cobitis minhi Ngo, 2008 - Binh loach Species Cobitis multifasciata Wakiya & Mori, 1929 - Japanese spinous loach Species Cobitis multimaculata Chen & Chen, 2011 - Bobai loach Species Cobitis nalbanti Vasil'eva et al., 2016 - Nalbant's spined loach Species Cobitis narentana Karaman, 1928 - Neretva River loach Species Cobitis ohridana Karaman, 1928 - Ohrid spined loach Species Cobitis pacifica Kim et al., 1999 - Pacific cobitis loach Species Cobitis paludica (de Buen, 1930) - Talayuela spined loach [=paludicola, haasi] Species Cobitis phrygica Battalgazi, 1944 - Phrygic loach Species Cobitis pontica Vasil'eva & Vasil'ev, 2006 - Pontic loach Species Cobitis pumila Kim & Lee, 1987 - Puan-gun spined loach Species Cobitis puncticulata Erk'akan et al., 1998 - Manyas Lake spined loach Species Cobitis punctilineata Economidis & Nalbant, 1996 - Drama spined loach Species Cobitis rara Chen, 1981 - rara spined loach Species Cobitis rhodopensis Vassilev, 1998 - Biala spined loach Species Cobitis sakahoko Nakajima & Suzawa, 2015 - Oyodo River spined loach Species Cobitis saniae Eagderi et al., 2017 - Bara Goor River spined loach Species Cobitis satunini Gladkov, 1935 - Kintrich spined loach Species Cobitis shikokuensis Suzawa, 2006 - Siberian spiny loach Species Cobitis simplicispina Hankó, 1925 - Porsuk spiny loach Species Cobitis sinensis Sauvage & Dabry de Thiersant, 1874 - Szechwan spiny loach Species Cobitis splendens Erk'akan et al., 1998 - Black Sea spiny loach Species Cobitis squataeniatus Ngo, 2008 - Ngo's spiny loach Species Cobitis stenocauda Chen & Chen, 2013 - Xinjiang loach Species Cobitis stephanidisi Economidis, 1992 - Karla spiny loach Species Cobitis striata Ikeda, 1936 - Japanese striped loach [=fuchigamii, hakataensis] Species Cobitis strumicae Karaman, 1955 - Strumica loach [=peschevi] Species Cobitis taenia Linnaeus, 1758 - spined loach [=spilura, taenioides] Species Cobitis takatsuensis Mizuno, 1970 - Japanese spined loach Species Cobitis takenoi Nakajima, 2016 - Tango spined loach Species Cobitis tanaitica Bacescu & Mayer, 1969 - Don spined loach [=rossomeridionalis] Species Cobitis taurica Vasil'eva et al., in Janko et al., 2005 - Chernaya spined loach Species Cobitis tetralineata Kim et al., 1999 - four-lined spined loach Species Cobitis trichonica Stephanidis, 1974 - Trichonis spined loach Species Cobitis turcica Hanko, 1925 - Central Anatolian spined loach [=anatoliae] Species Cobitis vardarensis Karaman, 1928 - Vardar spined loach [=kurui] Species Cobitis vettonica Doadrio & Perdices, 1997 - Arrago spined loach Species Cobitis xinjiangensis (Chen & Chen, 2005) - Xinjiang River spined loach Species Cobitis ylengensis Ngo, 2003 - Bai Dinh spined loach Species Cobitis yongdokensis (Kim & Park, 1997) - Yongdokoship River spined loach Species Cobitis zanandreai Cavicchioli, 1965 - Volturno spined loach Species Cobitis zhejiangensis Son & He, 2005 - Ling River spined loach GENUS Koreocobitis Kim et al., 1997 - loaches Species Koreocobitis naktongensis Kim, Park & Nalbant, 2000 - Naktong loach Species Koreocobitis rotundicaudata (Wakiya & Mori, 1929) - white nose loach GENUS Kottelatlimia Nalbant, 1994 - loaches Species Kottelatlimia hipporhynchos Kottelat & Tan, 2008 - Kahayhan loach Species Kottelatlimia katik (Kottelat & Lim, 1992) - katik loach Species Kottelatlimia pristes (Roberts, 1989) - Barat loach GENUS Lepidocephalichthys Bleeker, 1863 - loaches [=Cobitichthys, Enobarbichthys, Enobarbus, Jerdonia, Madrasia, Platacanthus] Species Lepidocephalichthys alkaia Havird & Page, 2010 - Hpa-Lap loach Species Lepidocephalichthys annandalei Chaudhuri, 1912 - Annandale loach [=menoni] Species Lepidocephalichthys arunachalensis (Datta & Barman, 1984) - Namdapha loach Species Lepidocephalichthys berdmorei (Blyth, 1860) - Burmese loach [=birmanicus, cataractus] Species Lepidocephalichthys coromandelensis (Menon, 1992) - Araku loach Species Lepidocephalichthys furcatus (de Beaufort, 1933) - Bukit loach Species Lepidocephalichthys goalparensis Pillai & Yazdani, 1976 - Goalpara loach [=caudofurcatus] Species Lepidocephalichthys guntea (Hamilton, 1822) - Guntea loach [=dibruensis, aculeata, balgara, lateralis, maya, nepalensis, olivaceus, phoxocheila, vittatus] Species Lepidocephalichthys hasselti (Valenciennes, in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1846) - Hasselt's loach [=nudus, taeniatus] Species Lepidocephalichthys irrorata Hora, 1921 - Loktak loach Species Lepidocephalichthys jonklaasi (Deraniyagala, 1956) - spotted loach, Jonklaas's loach Species Lepidocephalichthys kranos Havird & Page, 2010 - Mun River loach Species Lepidocephalichthys longipinnis (Menon, 1992) - Kharangpat Lake loach Species Lepidocephalichthys lorentzi (Weber & de Beaufort, 1916) - Lorentz's loach Species Lepidocephalichthys micropogon (Blyth, 1860) - Sittang loach [=manipurensis] Species Lepidocephalichthys thermalis (Valenciennes, in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1846) - common spiny loach [=agrensis, carnaticus, maculatus, mysorensis, rubripinnis] Species Lepidocephalichthys tomaculum Kottelat & Lim, 1992 - Selangor loach Species Lepidocephalichthys zeppelini Havird & Tangjitjaroen, in Havird et al., 2010 - zeppelin loach GENUS Lepidocephalus Bleeker, 1859 - loaches Species Lepidocephalus macrochir (Bleeker, 1854) - Palembang loach Species Lepidocephalus nanensis Deein et al., 2014 - Mae Nam Nan loach Species Lepidocephalus pahangensis (de Beaufort, 1933) - Pahang loach Species Lepidocephalus pallens (Vaillant, 1902) - Sintang loach Species Lepidocephalus spectrum Roberts, 1989 - Sungai Melawi loach GENUS Microcobitis Bohlen & Harant, 2011 - loaches Species Microcobitis misgurnoides (Rendahl, 1944) - Lake Thua Luu loach GENUS Misgurnus Lacepède, 1803 - weatherfishes [=Mesomisgurnus, Ussuria] Species Misgurnus anguillicaudatus (Cantor, 1842) - Japanese weatherfish [=bifurcata, cirrhifurcata, crossochilus, decemcirrosus, dichachrous, elongatus, enalios, formosanus, fukien, grangeri, hainan, haematopterus, hetsieou, heungchow, leopardus, lividus, maculata, micropus, pectoralis, polynema, psammismus, punctatus, rubripinnis, tungting, unicolor, yunnan] Species Misgurnus buphoensis Kim & Park, 1995 - Bupori weatherfish Species Misgurnus fossilis (Linnaeus, 1758) - weatherfish Species Misgurnus mohoity (Dybowski, 1869) - Amur weatherfish [=ajdan K, ajdan D, anjan, cestoideus, erikssoni, leptocephala, maculatus, spilurus] Species Misgurnus multimaculatus Rendahl, 1944 - Vietnamese weatherfish Species Misgurnus nikolskyi Vasil'eva, 2001 - Primorsky Kray weatherfish Species Misgurnus tonkinensis Rendahl, 1937 - Hanoi weatherfish GENUS Neoeucirrhichthys Bănărescu & Nalbant, 1968 - loaches Species Neoeucirrhichthys maydelli Banarescu & Nalbant, 1968 - Goalpara loach GENUS Pangio Blyth, 1860 - kuhli-loaches [=Apua, Cobitophis, Eucirrhichthys] Species Pangio agma (Burridge, 1992) - agma loach Species Pangio alcoides Kottelat & Lim, 1993 - alcoides loach Species Pangio alternans Kottelat & Lim, 1993 - Borneo Kuhli loach Species Pangio ammophila Britz et al., 2012 - Kumaradhara eel loach Species Pangio anguillaris (Vaillant, 1902) - eel loach [=perakensis, vermicularis] Species Pangio apoda Britz & Maclaine, 2007 - apoda eel loach Species Pangio atactos Tan & Kottelat, 2009 - atactos eel loach Species Pangio bitaimac Tan & Kottelat, 2009 - Jambi eel loach Species Pangio cuneovirgata (Raut, 1957) - Johore Kuhli loach Species Pangio doriae (Perugia, 1892) - golden eel loach Species Pangio elongata Britz & Maclaine, 2007 - Mingaw Kloh eel loach Species Pangio filinaris Kottelat & Lim, 1993 - Tersat eel loach Species Pangio fusca (Blyth, 1860) - Tenasserim kuhli loach Species Pangio goaensis (Tilak, 1972) - Indian coolie loach Species Pangio incognito Kottelat & Lim, 1993 - incognito kuhli loach Species Pangio kuhlii (Valenciennes, in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1846) - Coolie loach [=fasciatus H, fasciatus B] Species Pangio lidi Hadiaty & Kottelat, 2009 - lidi coolie loach Species Pangio longimanus Britz & Kottelat, 2010 - miniature eel loach Species Pangio lumbriciformis Britz & Maclaine, 2007 - Ayeyarwaddy eel loach Species Pangio malayana (Tweedie, 1956) - Malaysian eel loach Species Pangio mariarum (Inger & Chin, 1962) - Sabah eel loach Species Pangio muraeniformis (de Beaufort, 1933) - spotted eel loach Species Pangio myersi (Harry, 1949) - albino giant kuhli loach Species Pangio oblonga (Valenciennes, in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1846) - Java loach [=javanicus B, javanicus H] Species Pangio pangia (Hamilton, 1822) - cinnamon loach [=cinnamomea, rubiginosus] Species Pangio piperata Kottelat & Lim, 1993 - piperata kuhli loach Species Pangio pulla Kottelat & Lim, 1993 - pulla eel loach Species Pangio robiginosa (Raut, 1957) - Bantean eel loach Species Pangio semicincta (Fraser-Brunner, 1940) - Mawai kuhli loach [=sumatranus] Species Pangio shelfordii (Popta, 1903) - Borneo loach Species Pangio signicauda Britz & Maclaine, 2007 - Nanmate kuhli loach Species Pangio superba (Roberts, 1989) - superba kuhli loach GENUS Paralepidocephalus Tchang, 1935 - loaches Species Paralepidocephalus guishanensis Li, 2004 - Guishan loach Species Paralepidocephalus translucens Liu et al., 2016 - translucens loach Species Paralepidocephalus yui Tchang, 1935 - Yu loach GENUS Paramisgurnus Dabry de Thiersant, 1872 - loaches [=Paramisgurnus S] Species Paramisgurnus dabryanus Dabry de Thiersant, 1872 - Chinese paramisgurnus [=dabryanus S, mizolepis] Species Paramisgurnus oligolepos Li, 1993 - Tanggu loach GENUS Protocobitis Yang & Chen, 1993 - loaches Species Protocobitis anteroventris Lan, 2013 - Lingping loach Species Protocobitis polylepis Zhu et al., 2008 - Guangxi loach Species Protocobitis typhlops Yang & Chen, 1993 - troglobitic loach GENUS Sabanejewia Vladykov, 1929 - loaches Species Sabanejewia aurata (de Filippi, 1863) - goldside loach [=aralensis, bosniaca, hohenackeri, montana, radnensis, thrakica] Species Sabanejewia balcanica (Karaman, 1922) - Vardar loach [=radnensis J] Species Sabanejewia baltica Witkowski, 1994 - golden loach Species Sabanejewia bulgarica (Drensky, 1928) - Bulgarian golden loach [=albicoloris, tesselatus] Species Sabanejewia caspia (Eichwald, 1838) - Caspian golden loach Species Sabanejewia caucasica (Berg, 1906) - Ciscaucasian spined loach Species Sabanejewia kubanica Vasil'eva & Vasil'ev, 1988 - Kuban golden loach Species Sabanejewia larvata (De Filippi, 1859) - Italian loach [=conspersa] Species Sabanejewia romanica (Bacescu, 1943) - Romanian loach Species Sabanejewia vallachica (Nalbant, 1957) - Eastern Carpathian golden loach GENUS Theriodes Kottelat, 2012 - loaches Species Theriodes sandakanensis (Inger & Chin, 1962) - Sepilok loach