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 96 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 battalgili 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 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
References
Freshwater fish genera
Freshwater fish of Asia
Freshwater fish of Europe
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot