Cobitidae
| Cobitidae | |
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| Cobitis biwae | |
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| Cobitis paludica | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Superfamily: | Cobitoidei |
| Family: | Cobitidae Swainson, 1838[1] |
| Type species | |
| Cobitis taenia Linnaeus, 1758 | |
| Genera | |
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The Cobitidae, also known as true loaches, are a family of Old World freshwater fish. Cobitidae is also known as freshwater loach, snake carp, weatherfish, or elongated freshwater snakecarp loach. They live in freshwater lakes.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 1–230. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1. PMID 25543675.
