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Genus of fishes

Leptobotia
Leptobotia elongata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Botiidae
Genus: Leptobotia
Bleeker, 1870
Type species
Botia elongata
Bleeker, 1870

Leptobotia is a genus of fish in the family Botiidae endemic to China.

Species

There are currently 21 recognized species in this genus. In addition to these, Parabotia curtus was formerly included in Leptobotia.

References

  1. ^ Kottelat, M. (2012): Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). Archived 2016-05-09 at the Wayback Machine Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. No. 26: 1-199.
  2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Leptobotia". FishBase. October 2024 version.
  3. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Leptobotia". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
  4. Guo D-M, Zhang E (2021) Re-description of the loach species Leptobotia citrauratea (Teleostei, Botiidae), with the description of L. brachycephala from southern Zhejiang Province, China. ZooKeys 1017: 89-109. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1017.57503
Taxon identifiers
Leptobotia


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