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