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