# Cobitis

Cobitis is a genus of small freshwater fish in the family Cobitidae from temperate and subtropical Eurasia. It contains the "typical spiny loaches", including the well-known spined loach of Europe. Similar spiny loaches, occurring generally south of the range of Cobitis, are nowadays separated in Sabanejewia.

## Species

There are currently 97 recognized species in this genus:
* Cobitis amphilekta Vasil'eva & Vasil'ev, 2012 (Khvalyn spined loach)
* Cobitis arachthosensis Economidis & Nalbant, 1996
* Cobitis arenae (S. Y. Lin, 1934)
* Cobitis australis Y. X. Chen, Y. F. Chen & D. K. He, 2013
* Cobitis avicennae Mousavi-Sabet, Vatandoust, Esmaeili, Geiger & Freyhof, 2015 (Zagros spined loach)
* Cobitis baishagensis Y. X. Chen, X. Y. Sui, N. Liang & Y. F. Chen, 2015
* Cobitis battalgilae Băcescu, 1962 (Battalgil's spined loach)
* Cobitis bilineata Canestrini, 1865
* Cobitis bilseli Battalgil, 1942 (Beyşehir spined loach)
* Cobitis biwae D. S. Jordan & Snyder, 1901
* Cobitis brevifasciata (I. S. Kim & W. O. Lee, 1995)
* Cobitis calderoni Băcescu, 1962
* Cobitis choii I. S. Kim & Y. M. Son, 1984 (Choi's spined loach)
* Cobitis crassicauda Y. X. Chen & Y. F. Chen, 2013
* Cobitis dalmatina S. L. Karaman, 1928
* Cobitis damlae Erk' Akan & Özdemir, 2014 (Dalaman spined loach)
* Cobitis delicata Niwa, 1937
* Cobitis dolichorhynchus Nichols, 1918
* Cobitis dorademiri Erk' Akan, Özdemir & Özeren, 2017
* Cobitis elazigensis Coad & Sarıeyyüpoglu, 1988 (Tigris spined loach)
* Cobitis elongata Heckel & Kner, 1857
* Cobitis elongatoides Băcescu & R. F. Mayer, 1969
* Cobitis evreni Erk' Akan, Özeren & Nalbant, 2008 (Ceyhan spined loach)
* Cobitis fahireae Erk' Akan, Ekmekçi & Nalbant, 1998 (Küçük Menderes spined loach)
* Cobitis faridpaki Mousavi-Sabet, Vasil'eva, Vatandoust & Vasil'ev, 2011
* Cobitis fasciola Y. X. Chen & Y. F. Chen, 2013
* Cobitis gladkovi Vasil'ev & Vasil'eva, 2008
* Cobitis gracilis Y. X. Chen & Y. F. Chen, 2016
* Cobitis guttatus (V. H. Nguyễn, 2005)
* Cobitis hankugensis I. S. Kim, J. Y. Park, Y. M. Son & Nalbant, 2003
* Cobitis hellenica Economidis & Nalbant, 1996
* Cobitis hereromacula Y. X. Chen, X. Y. Sui, N. Liang & Y. F. Chen, 2015
* Cobitis herzegoviniensis Buj & Šanda, 2014
* Cobitis hugowolfeldi (Nalbant, 1993)
* Cobitis illyrica Freyhof & Stelbrink, 2007
* Cobitis jadovaensis Mustafić & Mrakovčić, 2008
* Cobitis kaibarai Nakajima, 2012
* Cobitis kellei Erk' Akan, Ekmekçi & Nalbant, 1998 (Göksu spined loach)
* Cobitis koreensis I. S. Kim, 1975
* Cobitis laoensis (Sauvage, 1878)
* Cobitis laterimaculata J. P. Yan & M. L. Zheng, 1984
* Cobitis lebedevi Vasil'eva & Vasil'ev, 1985
* Cobitis levantina Krupp & Moubayed-Breil, 1992 (Orontes spined loach)
* Cobitis linea (Heckel, 1847)
* Cobitis longibarba (Y. F. Chen & Y. X. Chen, 2005)
* Cobitis longicorpus I. S. Kim, K. C. Choi & Nalbant, 1976
* Cobitis lutheri Rendahl (de), 1935 (Luther's spined loach)
* Cobitis macrostigma Dabry de Thiersant, 1872
* Cobitis magnostriata Nakajima, 2012
* Cobitis maroccana Pellegrin, 1929
* Cobitis matsubarai Okada & Ikeda, 1939
* Cobitis megaspila Nalbant, 1993
* Cobitis melanoleuca Nichols, 1925
* Cobitis meridionalis S. L. Karaman, 1924
* Cobitis microcephala Y. X. Chen & Y. F. Chen, 2011
* Cobitis minamorii Nakajima, 2012
* Cobitis minhi S. V. Ngô, 2008
* Cobitis multifasciata Wakiya & T. Mori, 1929
* Cobitis multimaculata Y. X. Chen & Y. F. Chen, 2011
* Cobitis nalbanti Vasil'eva, D. M. Kim, Vasil'ev, M. H. Ko & Y. J. Won, 2016 (Nalbant's spined loach)
* Cobitis narentana S. L. Karaman, 1928
* Cobitis ohridana S. L. Karaman, 1928
* Cobitis pacifica I. S. Kim, J. Y. Park & Nalbant, 1999
* Cobitis paludica (F. de Buen, 1930)
* Cobitis phrygica Battalgazi, 1944 (Acı spined loach)
* Cobitis pontica Vasil'eva & Vasil'ev, 2006 (Pontic spined loach)
* Cobitis pumila I. S. Kim & W. O. Lee, 1987 (Puan spined loach)
* Cobitis puncticulata Erk' Akan, Ekmekçi & Nalbant, 1998 (Spotted spined loach)
* Cobitis punctilineata Economidis & Nalbant, 1996
* Cobitis rara J. X. Chen, 1981
* Cobitis sakahoko Nakajima & Suzawa, 2015
* Cobitis saniae Eagderi, Jouladeh-Roudbar, Jalili, Sayyadzadeh & Esmaeili, 2017
* Cobitis satunini Gladkov, 1935
* Cobitis shikokuensis Suzawa, 2006
* Cobitis sibirica Gladkov, 1935
* Cobitis simplicispina Hankó (hu), 1925 (Sakarya spined loach)
* Cobitis sinensis Sauvage & Dabry de Thiersant, 1874 (Siberian spined loach)
* Cobitis sipahilerae Erk' Akan, Özdemir & Özeren, 2017
* Cobitis splendens Erk' Akan, Ekmekçi & Nalbant, 1998 (Splendid spined loach)
* Cobitis stenocauda Y. X. Chen & Y. F. Chen, 2013
* Cobitis stephanidisi Economidis, 1992
* Cobitis striata Ikeda, 1936
* Cobitis strumicae S. L. Karaman, 1955 (Bulgarian spined loach)
* Cobitis taenia Linnaeus, 1758 (Spined loach)
* Cobitis takatsuensis Mizuno, 1970
* Cobitis takenoi Nakajima, 2016
* Cobitis tanaitica Băcescu & R. F. Mayer, 1969
* Cobitis taurica Vasil'eva, Vasil'ev, Janko, Ráb & Rábová, 2005
* Cobitis tetralineata I. S. Kim, J. Y. Park & Nalbant, 1999
* Cobitis trichonica Stephanidis, 1974
* Cobitis turcica Hankó (hu), 1925 (Turkish spined loach)
* Cobitis vardarensis S. L. Karaman, 1928 (Vardar spined loach)
* Cobitis vettonica Doadrio & Perdices, 1997
* Cobitis xinjiangensis (Y. F. Chen & Y. X. Chen, 2005)
* Cobitis ylengensis S. V. Ngô, 2003
* Cobitis yongdokensis (I. S. Kim & J. Y. Park, 1997)
* Cobitis zanandreai Cavicchioli, 1965
* Cobitis zhejiangensis Y. M. Son & S. P. He, 2005