# Cobitis

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{{Short description|Genus of fishes}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image                  = Niwaella delicata (Shiga,Japan).jpg
| image_upright          = 1.15
| image_caption          = ''Cobitis delicata''
| image2                 = Cobitis paludica 01 by-dpc.jpg
| image2_upright         = 1.15
| image2_caption         = ''Cobitis paludica''
| taxon                  = Cobitis
| authority              = [Linnaeus](/source/Carl_Linnaeus), 1758
| type_species           = ''Cobitis taenia''
| type_species_authority = Linnaeus, 1758
| synonyms               =
* ''Acanestrinia'' <small>Bǎcescu, 1962</small>
* ''Acanthopsis'' <small>Agassiz, 1832</small>
* ''Acantophthalmus'' <small>van Hasselt, 1823</small>
* ''Beyshehiria'' <small>Erk'akan, Ekmekçi & Nalbant, 1999</small>
* ''Bicanestrinia'' <small>Bǎcescu, 1962</small>
* ''Cobitinula'' <small>Hankó, 1924</small>
* ''Iberocobitis'' <small>Bǎcescu, 1962</small>
* ''Iksookimia'' <small>Nalbant, 1993</small><ref name=Perdices2016/>
* ''Kichulchoia'' <small>Kim, Park & Nalbant, 1999</small><ref name=Perdices2016/>
* ''Niwaella'' <small>Nalbant, 1963</small><ref name=Perdices2016/>
| subdivision_ranks      = Species
| subdivision            = {{center|''See text''}}
}}

'''''Cobitis''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of small [freshwater fish](/source/freshwater_fish) in the [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) [Cobitidae](/source/Cobitidae) from [temperate](/source/temperate) and [subtropical](/source/subtropical) [Eurasia](/source/Eurasia). It contains the "typical spiny [loach](/source/loach)es", including the well-known [spined loach](/source/Cobitis_taenia) of Europe.<ref name=FB>{{FishBase_genus | genus = Cobitis | month = June | year = 2017 }}</ref> Similar spiny loaches, occurring generally south of the range of ''Cobitis'', are nowadays separated in ''[Sabanejewia](/source/Sabanejewia)''.<ref name=Perdices2008>Perdices, A., Bohlen, J. & Doadrio, I. (2008): [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790307001650 The molecular diversity of adriatic spined loaches (Teleostei, Cobitidae).] ''Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 46 (1): 382–390.''</ref>

== Species ==
There are currently 97 recognized species in this genus:

* ''[Cobitis amphilekta](/source/Cobitis_amphilekta)'' <small>[Vasil'eva](/source/Ekaterina_Denisovna_Vasil'eva) & [Vasil'ev](/source/Victor_Pavlovich_Vasil'ev), 2012</small> (Khvalyn spined loach)<ref name=Vasileva2012>Vasil'eva, E.D. & Vasil'ev, V.P. (2012): [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0032945212020154 ''Cobitis amphilekta'' sp. nova, a New Species of Spined Loaches (Cobitidae, Cypriniformes) from the Caspian Sea Basin.] ''Journal of Ichthyology, 52 (3): 200–206.''</ref>
* ''[Cobitis arachthosensis](/source/Cobitis_arachthosensis)'' <small>[Economidis](/source/Panos_Stavros_Economidis) & [Nalbant](/source/Teodor_T._Nalbant), 1996</small>
* ''[Cobitis arenae](/source/Cobitis_arenae)'' <small>([S. Y. Lin](/source/Lin_Shu-Yen), 1934)</small>
* ''[Cobitis australis](/source/Cobitis_australis)'' <small>[Y. X. Chen](/source/Chen_Yong-Xia), [Y. F. Chen](/source/Chen_Yi-Feng) & [D. K. He](/source/He_De-Kui), 2013</small><ref name=Chen2013a>Chen, Y.-X., Chen, Y.-F. & He, D.-K. (2013): A new species of spined loach (Osteichthyes, Cobitidae) from the Pearl River, Guangxi of China. ''Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica, 38 (2): 377-387.''</ref>
* ''[Cobitis avicennae](/source/Cobitis_avicennae)'' <small>[Mousavi-Sabet](/source/Hamed_Mousavi-Sabet), [Vatandoust](/source/Saber_Vatandoust), [Esmaeili](/source/Hamid_Reza_Esmaeili), [Geiger](/source/Matthias_F._Geiger) & [Freyhof](/source/J%C3%B6rg_Arthur_Freyhof), 2015</small> (Zagros spined loach)<ref name=Mousavi2015>Mousavi-Sabet, H., Vatandoust, S., Esmaeili, H.R., Geiger, M.F. & Freyhof, J. (2015): [http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2015/f/z03914p568f.pdf ''Cobitis avicennae'', a new species of spined loach from the Tigris River drainage (Teleostei: Cobitidae).] ''Zootaxa, 3914 (5): 558–568.''</ref>
* ''[Cobitis baishagensis](/source/Cobitis_baishagensis)'' <small>[Y. X. Chen](/source/Chen_Yong-Xia), [X. Y. Sui](/source/Sui_Xiao-Yun), [N. Liang](/source/Liang_Na_(biologist)) & [Y. F. Chen](/source/Chen_Yi-Feng), 2015</small><ref name=Chen2015>Chen, Y., Sui, X., Liang, N. & Chen, Y. (2015): [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00343-016-4277-0 Two new species of the genus ''Cobitis'' Linnaeus (Teleostei: Cobitidae) from southern China.] ''Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 34 (3): 517–525.''</ref>
* ''[Cobitis battalgilae](/source/Cobitis_battalgilae)'' <small>[Băcescu](/source/Mihai_C._B%C4%83cescu), 1962</small> (Battalgil's spined loach)
* ''[Cobitis bilineata](/source/Cobitis_bilineata)'' <small>[Canestrini](/source/Giovanni_Canestrini), 1865</small>
* ''[Cobitis bilseli](/source/Cobitis_bilseli)'' <small>[Battalgil](/source/Fahire_Battalgazi), 1942</small> (Beyşehir spined loach)
* ''[Cobitis biwae](/source/Cobitis_biwae)'' <small>[D. S. Jordan](/source/David_Starr_Jordan) & [Snyder](/source/John_Otterbein_Snyder), 1901</small>
* ''[Cobitis brevifasciata](/source/Cobitis_brevifasciata)'' <small>([I. S. Kim](/source/Kim_Ik-Soo) & [W. O. Lee](/source/Lee_Wan-Ok), 1995)</small><ref name=Perdices2016>Perdices, A., Bohlen, J., Šlechtová, V. & Doadrio, I. (2016): [http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0144628&type=printable Molecular Evidence for Multiple Origins of the European Spined Loaches (Teleostei, Cobitidae).] ''PLoS ONE, 11 (1): e0144628.''</ref>
* ''[Cobitis calderoni](/source/Cobitis_calderoni)''  <small>[Băcescu](/source/Mihai_C._B%C4%83cescu), 1962</small>
* ''[Cobitis choii](/source/Cobitis_choii)'' <small>[I. S. Kim](/source/Kim_Ik-Soo) & [Y. M. Son](/source/Son_Yeong-Mok), 1984</small> (Choi's spined loach)
* ''[Cobitis crassicauda](/source/Cobitis_crassicauda)'' <small>[Y. X. Chen](/source/Chen_Yong-Xia) & [Y. F. Chen](/source/Chen_Yi-Feng), 2013</small><ref name=Chen2013>Chen, Y. & Chen, Y.
 (2013): [http://www.ivb.cz/folia_zoologica/archive/62_83-95.pdf Three new species of cobitid fish (Teleostei, Cobitidae) from the River Xinjiang and the River Le’anjiang, tributaries of Lake Poyang of China, with remarks on their classification.] ''Folia Zoologica, 62 (2): 83-95.''</ref>
* ''[Cobitis dalmatina](/source/Cobitis_dalmatina)'' <small>[S. L. Karaman](/source/Stanko_Luka_Karaman), 1928</small>
* ''[Cobitis damlae](/source/Cobitis_damlae)'' <small>[Erk' Akan](/source/F%C3%BCsun_Erk'_Akan) & [Özdemir](/source/Filiz_Sivrikaya_%C3%96zdemir), 2014</small> (Dalaman spined loach)<ref name=Erkakan2014>Erkakan, F. & Özdemir, F. (2014): [http://www.hjbc.hacettepe.edu.tr/site/assets/files/1452/hjbc_42_2_275-279.pdf The first new cave fish species, ''Cobitis damlae'' (Teleostei: Cobitidae) from Turkey.] ''Hacettepe Journal of Biology and Chemistry, 42 (2): 275–279.''</ref>
* ''[Cobitis delicata](/source/Cobitis_delicata)'' <small>[Niwa](/source/Hisashi_Niwa), 1937</small><ref name=Perdices2016/>
* ''[Cobitis dolichorhynchus](/source/Cobitis_dolichorhynchus)'' <small>[Nichols](/source/John_Treadwell_Nichols), 1918</small>
* ''[Cobitis dorademiri](/source/Cobitis_dorademiri)'' <small>[Erk' Akan](/source/F%C3%BCsun_Erk'_Akan), [Özdemir](/source/Filiz_Sivrikaya_%C3%96zdemir) & [Özeren](/source/Saniye_Cevher_%C3%96zeren), 2017</small><ref name=Erkakan2017>Erkakan, F., Özdemir, F. & Özeren, S.C. (2017): [http://fishtaxa.com/index.php/ft/article/view/2-2-4/87 Two new species of the genus ''Cobitis'' Linnaeus (Teleostei: Cobitidae) from Turkey.] ''FishTaxa, 2 (2): 82-89.''</ref>
* ''[Cobitis elazigensis](/source/Cobitis_elazigensis)'' <small>[Coad](/source/Brian_W._Coad) & [Sarıeyyüpoglu](/source/Mustafa_Sar%C4%B1eyy%C3%BCpoglu), 1988</small> (Tigris spined loach)
* ''[Cobitis elongata](/source/Cobitis_elongata)'' <small>[Heckel](/source/Johann_Jakob_Heckel) & [Kner](/source/Rudolf_Kner), 1857</small>
* ''[Cobitis elongatoides](/source/Cobitis_elongatoides)'' <small>[Băcescu](/source/Mihai_C._B%C4%83cescu) & [R. F. Mayer](/source/Rudolf_F._Mayer), 1969</small>
* ''[Cobitis evreni](/source/Cobitis_evreni)'' <small>[Erk' Akan](/source/F%C3%BCsun_Erk'_Akan), [Özeren](/source/Saniye_Cevher_%C3%96zeren) & [Nalbant](/source/Teodor_T._Nalbant), 2008</small> (Ceyhan spined loach)
* ''[Cobitis fahireae](/source/Cobitis_fahireae)'' <small>[Erk' Akan](/source/F%C3%BCsun_Erk'_Akan), [Ekmekçi](/source/F%C4%B1tnat_G%C3%BCler_Atalay-Ekmek%C3%A7i) & [Nalbant](/source/Teodor_T._Nalbant), 1998</small> (Küçük Menderes spined loach)
* ''[Cobitis faridpaki](/source/Cobitis_faridpaki)'' <small>[Mousavi-Sabet](/source/Hamed_Mousavi-Sabet), [Vasil'eva](/source/Ekaterina_Denisovna_Vasil'eva), [Vatandoust](/source/Saber_Vatandoust) & [Vasil'ev](/source/Victor_Pavlovich_Vasil'ev), 2011</small><ref name=Mousavi2011>Mousavi-Sabet, H., Vasil'eva, E.D., Vatandoust, S. & Vasil'ev, V.P.
 (2011): [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0032945211100055 ''Cobitis faridpaki'' sp. nova — a New Spined Loach Species (Cobitidae) from the Southern Caspian Sea Basin (Iran).] ''Journal of Ichthyology, 51 (10): 925–931.''</ref>
* ''[Cobitis fasciola](/source/Cobitis_fasciola)'' <small>[Y. X. Chen](/source/Chen_Yong-Xia) & [Y. F. Chen](/source/Chen_Yi-Feng), 2013</small><ref name=Chen2013/>
* ''[Cobitis gladkovi](/source/Cobitis_gladkovi)'' <small>Vasil'ev & Vasil'eva, 2008</small>
* ''[Cobitis gracilis](/source/Cobitis_gracilis)'' <small>[Y. X. Chen](/source/Chen_Yong-Xia) & [Y. F. Chen](/source/Chen_Yi-Feng), 2016</small><ref name=Chen2016>Chen, Y. & Chen, Y. (2016): [http://www.zootax.com.cn/EN/10.11865/zs.201643# A new species of the genus ''Cobitis'' (Cypriniformes: Cobitidae) from the Northeast China.] ''Zoological Systematics, 41 (4): 379-391.''</ref>
* ''[Cobitis guttatus](/source/Cobitis_guttatus)'' <small>([V. H. Nguyễn](/source/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_V%C4%83n_H%E1%BA%A3o), 2005)</small>
* ''[Cobitis hankugensis](/source/Cobitis_hankugensis)'' <small>[I. S. Kim](/source/Kim_Ik-Soo), [J. Y. Park](/source/Park_Jong-Young), [Y. M. Son](/source/Son_Yeong-Mok) & [Nalbant](/source/Teodor_T._Nalbant), 2003</small>
* ''[Cobitis hellenica](/source/Cobitis_hellenica)'' <small>[Economidis](/source/Panos_Stavros_Economidis) & [Nalbant](/source/Teodor_T._Nalbant), 1996</small>
* ''[Cobitis hereromacula](/source/Cobitis_hereromacula)'' <small>[Y. X. Chen](/source/Chen_Yong-Xia), [X. Y. Sui](/source/Sui_Xiao-Yun), [N. Liang](/source/Liang_Na_(biologist)) & [Y. F. Chen](/source/Chen_Yi-Feng), 2015</small><ref name=Chen2015/>
* ''[Cobitis herzegoviniensis](/source/Cobitis_herzegoviniensis)'' <small>[Buj](/source/Ivana_Buj) & [Šanda](/source/Radek_%C5%A0anda), 2014</small><ref name=Buj2014>Buj, I., Šanda, R., Marčić, Z., Ćaleta, M. & Mrakovčić, M. (2014): [http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0099833&type=printable Combining Morphology and Genetics in Resolving Taxonomy – A Systematic Revision of Spined Loaches (Genus ''Cobitis''; Cypriniformes, Actinopterygii) in the Adriatic Watershed.] ''PLoS ONE, 9 (6): e99833.''</ref>
* ''[Cobitis hugowolfeldi](/source/Cobitis_hugowolfeldi)'' <small>([Nalbant](/source/Teodor_T._Nalbant), 1993)</small><ref name=Perdices2016/>
* ''[Cobitis illyrica](/source/Cobitis_illyrica)'' <small>[Freyhof](/source/J%C3%B6rg_Arthur_Freyhof) & [Stelbrink](/source/Bj%C3%B6rn_Stelbrink), 2007</small>
* ''[Cobitis jadovaensis](/source/Cobitis_jadovaensis)'' <small>[Mustafić](/source/Perica_Mustafi%C4%87) & [Mrakovčić](/source/Milorad_Mrakov%C4%8Di%C4%87), 2008</small>
* ''[Cobitis kaibarai](/source/Cobitis_kaibarai)'' <small>[Nakajima](/source/Jun_Nakajima), 2012</small><ref name=Nakajima2012>Nakajima, J. (2012): [http://mapress.com/zootaxa/2012/f/zt03586p130.pdf Taxonomic study of the ''Cobitis striata'' complex (Cypriniformes, Cobitidae) in Japan.] ''Zootaxa, 3586: 103–130.''</ref>
* ''[Cobitis kellei](/source/Cobitis_kellei)'' <small>[Erk' Akan](/source/F%C3%BCsun_Erk'_Akan), [Ekmekçi](/source/F%C4%B1tnat_G%C3%BCler_Atalay-Ekmek%C3%A7i) & [Nalbant](/source/Teodor_T._Nalbant), 1998</small> (Göksu spined loach)
* ''[Cobitis koreensis](/source/Cobitis_koreensis)'' <small>[I. S. Kim](/source/Kim_Ik-Soo), 1975</small><ref name=Perdices2016/>
* ''[Cobitis laoensis](/source/Cobitis_laoensis)'' <small>([Sauvage](/source/Henri_%C3%89mile_Sauvage), 1878)</small>
* ''[Cobitis laterimaculata](/source/Cobitis_laterimaculata)'' <small>[J. P. Yan](/source/Yan_Ji-Ping) & [M. L. Zheng](/source/Zheng_Mi-Liang), 1984</small><ref name=Perdices2016/>
* ''[Cobitis lebedevi](/source/Cobitis_lebedevi)'' <small>[Vasil'eva](/source/Ekaterina_Denisovna_Vasil'eva) & [Vasil'ev](/source/Victor_Pavlovich_Vasil'ev), 1985</small>
* ''[Cobitis levantina](/source/Cobitis_levantina)'' <small>[Krupp](/source/Friedhelm_Krupp) & [Moubayed-Breil](/source/Jo%C3%ABl_Moubayed-Breil), 1992</small> (Orontes spined loach)
* ''[Cobitis linea](/source/Cobitis_linea)'' <small>([Heckel](/source/Johann_Jakob_Heckel), 1847)</small>
* ''[Cobitis longibarba](/source/Cobitis_longibarba)'' <small>([Y. F. Chen](/source/Chen_Yi-Feng) & [Y. X. Chen](/source/Chen_Yong-Xia), 2005)</small><ref name=Perdices2016/>
* ''[Cobitis longicorpus](/source/Cobitis_longicorpus)'' <small>[I. S. Kim](/source/Kim_Ik-Soo), [K. C. Choi](/source/Choi_Ki-Chul) & [Nalbant](/source/Teodor_T._Nalbant), 1976</small><ref name=Perdices2016/>
* ''[Cobitis lutheri](/source/Cobitis_lutheri)'' <small>[Rendahl](/source/Carl_Hialmar_Rendahl) ([de](/source/%3Ade%3AHialmar_Rendahl)), 1935</small> (Luther's spined loach)<ref name=Vasileva2016/>
* ''[Cobitis macrostigma](/source/Cobitis_macrostigma)'' <small>[Dabry de Thiersant](/source/Claude-Philibert_Dabry_de_Thiersant), 1872</small>
* ''[Cobitis magnostriata](/source/Cobitis_magnostriata)'' <small>[Nakajima](/source/Jun_Nakajima), 2012</small><ref name=Nakajima2012/>
* ''[Cobitis maroccana](/source/Cobitis_maroccana)'' [Pellegrin](/source/Jacques_Pellegrin), 1929
* ''[Cobitis matsubarai](/source/Cobitis_matsubarai)'' <small>[Okada](/source/Yaichir%C5%8D_Okada) & [Ikeda](/source/Hyozi_Ikeda), 1939</small>
* ''[Cobitis megaspila](/source/Cobitis_megaspila)'' <small>[Nalbant](/source/Teodor_T._Nalbant), 1993</small>
* ''[Cobitis melanoleuca](/source/Cobitis_melanoleuca)'' <small>[Nichols](/source/John_Treadwell_Nichols), 1925</small>
* ''[Cobitis meridionalis](/source/Cobitis_meridionalis)'' <small>[S. L. Karaman](/source/Stanko_Luka_Karaman), 1924</small>
* ''[Cobitis microcephala](/source/Cobitis_microcephala)'' <small>[Y. X. Chen](/source/Chen_Yong-Xia) & [Y. F. Chen](/source/Chen_Yi-Feng), 2011</small><ref name=Chen2011>Chen, Y. & Chen, Y.
 (2011): [http://www.ivb.cz/folia_zoologica/archive/60_143-152.pdf Two new species of cobitid fish (Teleostei, Cobitidae) from the River Nanliu and the River Beiliu, China.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170921045829/http://www.ivb.cz/folia_zoologica/archive/60_143-152.pdf |date=2017-09-21 }} ''Folia Zoologica, 60 (2): 143–152.''</ref>
* ''[Cobitis minamorii](/source/Cobitis_minamorii)'' <small>[Nakajima](/source/Jun_Nakajima), 2012</small><ref name=Nakajima2012/>
* ''[Cobitis minhi](/source/Cobitis_minhi)'' <small>[S. V. Ngô](/source/Ng%C3%B4_Sy_V%C4%83n), 2008</small>
* ''[Cobitis multifasciata](/source/Cobitis_multifasciata)'' <small>[Wakiya](/source/Yojiro_Wakiya) & [T. Mori](/source/Tamezo_Mori), 1929</small><ref name=Perdices2016/>
* ''[Cobitis multimaculata](/source/Cobitis_multimaculata)'' <small>[Y. X. Chen](/source/Chen_Yong-Xia) & [Y. F. Chen](/source/Chen_Yi-Feng), 2011</small><ref name=Chen2011/>
* ''[Cobitis nalbanti](/source/Cobitis_nalbanti)'' <small>[Vasil'eva](/source/Ekaterina_Denisovna_Vasil'eva), [D. M. Kim](/source/Kim_Dae-Min), [Vasil'ev](/source/Victor_Pavlovich_Vasil'ev), [M. H. Ko](/source/Ko_Myeong-Hun) & [Y. J. Won](/source/Won_Yong-Jin), 2016</small> (Nalbant's spined loach)<ref name=Vasileva2016>Vasil'eva, E.D., Kim, D., Vasil'ev, V.P., Ko, M.-H. & Won, Y.-J. (2016): [http://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4208.6.5 ''Cobitis nalbanti'', a new species of spined loach from South Korea, and redescription of ''Cobitis lutheri'' (Teleostei: Cobitidae).] ''Zootaxa, 4208 (6): 577-591.''</ref>
* ''[Cobitis narentana](/source/Cobitis_narentana)'' <small>[S. L. Karaman](/source/Stanko_Luka_Karaman), 1928</small>
* ''[Cobitis ohridana](/source/Cobitis_ohridana)'' <small>[S. L. Karaman](/source/Stanko_Luka_Karaman), 1928</small>
* ''[Cobitis pacifica](/source/Cobitis_pacifica)'' <small>[I. S. Kim](/source/Kim_Ik-Soo), [J. Y. Park](/source/Park_Jong-Young) & [Nalbant](/source/Teodor_T._Nalbant), 1999</small><ref name=Perdices2016/>
* ''[Cobitis paludica](/source/Cobitis_paludica)'' <small>([F. de Buen](/source/Don_Fernando_de_Buen_y_Lozano), 1930)</small>
* ''[Cobitis phrygica](/source/Cobitis_phrygica)'' <small>[Battalgazi](/source/Fahire_Battalgazi), 1944</small> (Acı spined loach)
* ''[Cobitis pontica](/source/Cobitis_pontica)'' <small>[Vasil'eva](/source/Ekaterina_Denisovna_Vasil'eva) & [Vasil'ev](/source/Victor_Pavlovich_Vasil'ev), 2006</small> (Pontic spined loach)
* ''[Cobitis pumila](/source/Cobitis_pumila)'' <small>[I. S. Kim](/source/Kim_Ik-Soo) & [W. O. Lee](/source/Lee_Wan-Ok), 1987</small> (Puan spined loach)<ref name=Perdices2016/>
* ''[Cobitis puncticulata](/source/Cobitis_puncticulata)'' <small>[Erk' Akan](/source/F%C3%BCsun_Erk'_Akan), [Ekmekçi](/source/F%C4%B1tnat_G%C3%BCler_Atalay-Ekmek%C3%A7i) & [Nalbant](/source/Teodor_T._Nalbant), 1998</small> (Spotted spined loach)
* ''[Cobitis punctilineata](/source/Cobitis_punctilineata)''	<small>[Economidis](/source/Panos_Stavros_Economidis) & [Nalbant](/source/Teodor_T._Nalbant), 1996</small>
* ''[Cobitis rara](/source/Cobitis_rara)'' <small>[J. X. Chen](/source/Chen_Jing-Xing), 1981</small>
* ''[Cobitis sakahoko](/source/Cobitis_sakahoko)'' <small>[Nakajima](/source/Jun_Nakajima) & [Suzawa](/source/Yuzuru_Suzawa), 2015</small><ref name=Nakajima2015>Nakajima, J. & Suzawa, Y. (2015): [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10228-015-0476-5 ''Cobitis sakahoko'', a new species of spined loach (Cypriniformes: Cobitidae) from southern Kyushu Island, Japan.] ''Ichthyological Research, 63 (1): 68–78.''</ref>
* ''[Cobitis saniae](/source/Cobitis_saniae)'' <small>[Eagderi](/source/Soheil_Eagderi), [Jouladeh-Roudbar](/source/Arash_Jouladeh-Roudbar), [Jalili](/source/Pariya_Jalili), [Sayyadzadeh](/source/Golnaz_Sayyadzadeh) & [Esmaeili](/source/Hamid_Reza_Esmaeili), 2017</small><ref name=Eagderi2017>Eagderi, S., Jouladeh-Roudbar, A., Jalili, P., Sayyadzadeh, G. & Esmaeili, H.R. (2017): [http://fishtaxa.com/index.php/ft/article/viewFile/2-1-5/82 Taxonomic status of the genus ''Cobitis'' Linnaeus, 1758 (Teleostei: Cobitidae) in the southern Caspian Sea basin, Iran with description of a new species.] ''FishTaxa, 2 (1): 48-61.''</ref>
* ''[Cobitis satunini](/source/Cobitis_satunini)'' <small>[Gladkov](/source/Nikolay_Alekseyevich_Gladkov), 1935</small>
* ''[Cobitis shikokuensis](/source/Cobitis_shikokuensis)'' <small>[Suzawa](/source/Yuzuru_Suzawa), 2006</small>
* ''[Cobitis sibirica](/source/Cobitis_sibirica)'' <small>[Gladkov](/source/Nikolay_Alekseyevich_Gladkov), 1935</small>
* ''[Cobitis simplicispina](/source/Cobitis_simplicispina)'' <small>[Hankó](/source/B%C3%A9la_Hank%C3%B3) ([hu](/source/%3Ahu%3AHank%C3%B3_B%C3%A9la)), 1925</small> (Sakarya spined loach)
* ''[Cobitis sinensis](/source/Cobitis_sinensis)'' <small>[Sauvage](/source/Henri_%C3%89mile_Sauvage) & [Dabry de Thiersant](/source/Claude-Philibert_Dabry_de_Thiersant), 1874</small> (Siberian spined loach)
* ''[Cobitis sipahilerae](/source/Cobitis_sipahilerae)'' <small>[Erk' Akan](/source/F%C3%BCsun_Erk'_Akan), [Özdemir](/source/Filiz_Sivrikaya_%C3%96zdemir) & [Özeren](/source/Saniye_Cevher_%C3%96zeren), 2017</small><ref name=Erkakan2017/>
* ''[Cobitis splendens](/source/Cobitis_splendens)'' <small>[Erk' Akan](/source/F%C3%BCsun_Erk'_Akan), [Ekmekçi](/source/F%C4%B1tnat_G%C3%BCler_Atalay-Ekmek%C3%A7i) & [Nalbant](/source/Teodor_T._Nalbant), 1998</small> (Splendid spined loach)
* ''[Cobitis stenocauda](/source/Cobitis_stenocauda)'' <small>[Y. X. Chen](/source/Chen_Yong-Xia) & [Y. F. Chen](/source/Chen_Yi-Feng), 2013</small><ref name=Chen2013/>
* ''[Cobitis stephanidisi](/source/Cobitis_stephanidisi)'' <small>[Economidis](/source/Panos_Stavros_Economidis), 1992</small>
* ''[Cobitis striata](/source/Cobitis_striata)'' <small>[Ikeda](/source/Hyozi_Ikeda), 1936</small><ref name=Nakajima2012/>
* ''[Cobitis strumicae](/source/Cobitis_strumicae)'' <small>[S. L. Karaman](/source/Stanko_Luka_Karaman), 1955</small> (Bulgarian spined loach)
* ''[Cobitis taenia](/source/Cobitis_taenia)'' <small>[Linnaeus](/source/Carl_Linnaeus), 1758</small> (Spined loach)
* ''[Cobitis takatsuensis](/source/Cobitis_takatsuensis)'' <small>[Mizuno](/source/Nobuhiko_Mizuno), 1970</small>
* ''[Cobitis takenoi](/source/Cobitis_takenoi)'' <small>[Nakajima](/source/Jun_Nakajima), 2016</small><ref name=Nakajima2016>Nakajima, J. (2016): [https://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=7733 ''Cobitis takenoi'' sp. n. (Cypriniformes, Cobitidae): a new spined loach from Honshu Island, Japan.] ''ZooKeys, 568: 119–128.''</ref>
* ''[Cobitis tanaitica](/source/Cobitis_tanaitica)'' <small>[Băcescu](/source/Mihai_C._B%C4%83cescu) & [R. F. Mayer](/source/Rudolf_F._Mayer_(zoologist)), 1969</small>
* ''[Cobitis taurica](/source/Cobitis_taurica)'' <small>[Vasil'eva](/source/Ekaterina_Denisovna_Vasil'eva), [Vasil'ev](/source/Victor_Pavlovich_Vasil'ev), [Janko](/source/Karel_Janko), [Ráb](/source/Petr_R%C3%A1b) & [Rábová](/source/Marie_R%C3%A1bov%C3%A1), 2005</small>
* ''[Cobitis tetralineata](/source/Cobitis_tetralineata)'' <small>[I. S. Kim](/source/Kim_Ik-Soo), [J. Y. Park](/source/Park_Jong-Young) & [Nalbant](/source/Teodor_T._Nalbant), 1999</small>
* ''[Cobitis trichonica](/source/Cobitis_trichonica)'' <small>[Stephanidis](/source/Alexander_I._Stephanidis), 1974</small>
* ''[Cobitis turcica](/source/Cobitis_turcica)'' <small>[Hankó](/source/B%C3%A9la_Hank%C3%B3) ([hu](/source/%3Ahu%3AHank%C3%B3_B%C3%A9la)), 1925</small> (Turkish spined loach)
* ''[Cobitis vardarensis](/source/Cobitis_vardarensis)'' <small>[S. L. Karaman](/source/Stanko_Luka_Karaman), 1928</small> (Vardar spined loach)
* ''[Cobitis vettonica](/source/Cobitis_vettonica)'' <small>[Doadrio](/source/Jos%C3%A9_Ignacio_Doadrio_Villarejo) & [Perdices](/source/Ana_Isabel_Fern%C3%A1ndez_Perdices), 1997</small>
* ''[Cobitis xinjiangensis](/source/Cobitis_xinjiangensis)'' <small>([Y. F. Chen](/source/Chen_Yi-Feng) & [Y. X. Chen](/source/Chen_Yong-Xia), 2005)</small><ref name=Perdices2016/> 
* ''[Cobitis ylengensis](/source/Cobitis_ylengensis)'' <small>[S. V. Ngô](/source/Ng%C3%B4_Sy_V%C4%83n), 2003</small>
* ''[Cobitis yongdokensis](/source/Cobitis_yongdokensis)'' <small>([I. S. Kim](/source/Kim_Ik-Soo) & [J. Y. Park](/source/Park_Jong-Young), 1997)</small><ref name=Perdices2016/>
* ''[Cobitis zanandreai](/source/Cobitis_zanandreai)'' <small>[Cavicchioli](/source/Giovanni_Cavicchioli), 1965</small>
* ''[Cobitis zhejiangensis](/source/Cobitis_zhejiangensis)'' <small>[Y. M. Son](/source/Son_Yeong-Mok) & [S. P. He](/source/He_Shun-Ping), 2005</small>

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