Kingdom Animalia Family Botiidae Rank Genus | Class Actinopterygii Phylum Chordata Order Cypriniformes | |
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Similar Leptobotia, Cypriniformes, Syncrossus, Botiidae, Syncrossus hymenophysa | ||
Kiran parabotia kartielib canal maurice
Parabotia is a genus of loaches. Most species in the genus are endemic to China, but P. curtis is from Japan, P. dubius is from Vietnam and P. mantschuricus is from the Amur River basin.
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20 chinesische schmerle parabotia lijiangensis chinese loach
Species
There are currently 12 recognized species in this genus:
(Note that under nomenclatural rules, this genus must be considered as masculine even though all other genera ending in -botia are considered to be feminine. See reference for more information.)
References
Parabotia Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA