# Botia

Botia és un gènere de peixos de la família dels cobítids i de l'ordre dels cipriniformes. Algunes de les seues espècies són populars en aquariofília (com ara, Botia almorhae, Botia dario, Botia histrionica, Botia kubotai, Botia lohachata, Botia rostrata, Botia striata i Botia udomritthiruji). Són principalment carnívors.
Botia almorhae, Botia dario, Botia histrionica, Botia kubotai, Botia rostrata, Botia striata i Botia udomritthiruji apareixen a la Llista Vermella de la UICN a causa de les amenaces que els representa la desforestació, la sedimentació, la contaminació de l'aigua, la pesca destructiva mitjançant verins i electrocució, les activitats mineres i el comerç internacional de peixos d'aquari.

## Distribució geogràfica

Es troba a Àsia: el Pakistan, l'Índia (com ara, els Ghats Occidentals, Karnataka, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Sikkim, Bengala Occidental, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tripura, Bihar, Rajasthan, i Maharashtra), Bhutan, el Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Laos, Tailàndia i la Xina (Yunnan), incloent-hi les conques dels rius Brahmaputra, Indus, Salween, Kabul, Irauadi, Mekong i Tenasserim.

## Taxonomia

* Botia almorhae (Gray, 1831)
* Botia birdi (Chaudhuri, 1909)
* Botia dario (Hamilton, 1822)
* Botia dayi (Hora, 1932)
* Botia histrionica (Blyth, 1860)
* Botia javedi (Mirza & Syed, 1995)
* Botia kubotai (Kottelat, 2004)
* Botia lohachata (Chaudhuri, 1912)
* Botia macrolineata (Teugels, De Vos & Snoeks, 1986)
* Botia pulchripinnis (Paysan, 1970)
* Botia rostrata (Günther, 1868)
* Botia striata (Narayan Rao, 1920)
* Botia udomritthiruji (Ng, 2007)

## Referències

* ↑ The Taxonomicon (anglès)
* 1 2 Seriously Fish (anglès)
* ↑ UICN (anglès)
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* ↑ Mirza, M. R., 2002. Checklist of freshwater fishes of Pakistan. Department of Zoology, Government College University, Lahore, el Pakistan.
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* ↑ Chandrashekhariah, H.N., M.F. Rahman i S. Lakshmi Raghavan, 2000. Status of fish fauna in Karnataka. p. 98-135. A: Ponniah, A.G. i A. Gopalakrishnan (eds.). Endemic Fish Diversity of Western Ghats. NBFGR-NATP Publication. National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources, Lucknow, U.P., l'Índia. 1, 347 p.
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* ↑ Petr, T., 1999. Coldwater fish and fisheries in Bhutan. P. 6-12. A: T. Petr (ed.). Fish and fisheries at higher altitudes: Asia. FAO Fish. Tech. Pap. Núm. 385. FAO, Roma. 304 p.
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* ↑ Oo, W., 2002. Inland fisheries of the Union of Myanmar. A: T. Petr i D.B. Swar (eds.) Cold Water Fisheries in the Trans-Himalayan Countries. FAO Fish. Tech. Pap. 431.
* 1 2 Two New Species of the Cobitid Genus Botia from the Lao Mekong Basin (anglès)
* ↑ Vidthayanon, C., 2005. Thailand red data: fishes. Office of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy and Planning, Bangkok, Tailàndia. 108 p.
* ↑ Kottelat, M. i X. Chu, 1987. The botiine loaches (Osteichthyes: Cobitidae) of the Lancangjiang (Upper Mekong) with description of a new species. Zool. Res. 8(4):393-400.
* ↑ Institute of Hydrobiology, Academia Sinica, Shanghai Natural Museum and Ministry of Agriculture of China, 1993. The freshwater fishes of China in coloured illustrations. Vol. 3. 166 pàgines.
* ↑ Ali, S.R., M. Ahmad, M.A.S. Ansari i M.R. Mirza, 1980. Hydrobiological studies of the Indus river and its tributaries above and below Tarbela dam. Pakistan J. Sci. Studies 2(1+2):15-30.
* ↑ Shrestha, T.K., 1990. Resource ecology of the Himalayan waters. Curriculum Development Centre, Tribhuvan University, Katmandú, Nepal. 645 p.
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* ↑ Gray, J. E., 1831. Description of twelve new genera of fish, discovered by Gen. Hardwicke, in India, the greater part in the British Museum. Zoological Miscellany 1831: 7–9 «Enllaç». Arxivat de l'original el 2016-03-03. [Consulta: 26 agost 2012].
* ↑ Chaudhuri, B. L., 1909. Descriptions of new species of Botia and Nemachilus. Records of the Indian Museum (Calcuta) v. 3 (pt 4): 339-342.
* ↑ Francis Buchanan-Hamilton, 1822. An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches. Edimburg i Londres: i-vii + 1-405, Pls. 1-39.
* ↑ Blyth, E., 1860. Report on some fishes received chiefly from the Sitang River and its tributary streams, Tenasserim Provinces. Journal and Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal v. 29 (núm. 2): 138-174.
* ↑ Kottelat, M., 2004. Botia kubotai, a new species of loach (Teleostei: Cobitidae) from the ataran River basin (Myanmar), with comments on botiinae nomenclature and diagnosis of a new genus. Zootaxa Núm. 401: 1-18.
* ↑ Chaudhuri, B. L., 1912. XXXV. Descriptions of some new species of freshwater fishes from north India. Records of the Indian Museum (Calcuta) v. 7 (pt 5): 437-444, Pls. 38-41.
* ↑ Günther A., 1868. Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Heteropygii, Cyprinidae, Gonorhynchidae, Hyodontidae, Osteoglossidae, Clupeidae,... Halosauridae, in the collection of the British Museum. Cat. Fishes v. 7. i-xx + 1-512.
* ↑ Narayan Rao, C. R., 1920. Some new species of cyprinoid fish from Mysore. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 9) v. 6 (núm. 31): 45-64, Pls. 1-2.
* ↑ Ng, H. H., 2007. Botia udomritthiruji, a new species of botiid loach from southern Myanmar (Teleostei: Botiidae). Zootaxa 1608: 41-49.

## Enllaços externs

* AQUATAB (txec)
* ION (anglès)
* An Introduction To Keeping Botia - Loaches Online (anglès)
* A New Look At Loaches (anglès)
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