Botia Gray

Maurice Kottelat, 2004, Botia kubotai, a new species of loach (Teleostei: Cobitidae) from the Ataran River basin (Myanmar), with comments on botiine nomenclature and diagnosis of a new genus., Zootaxa 401, pp. 1-18 : 2

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z00401p001

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6270534

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scientific name

Botia Gray
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[[ Genus Botia Gray View in CoL View at ENA   ZBK ]]

I describe here a new, uniquely patterned species of the genus Botia   ZBK . Botiine loaches usually inhabit swift, clear, and well oxygenated waters and prefer a stony substrate. Most species have a vivid or strikingly patterned body. Many species are quite similar morphologically, but their colour pattern is usually conspicuously diagnostic. Use of the colour pattern for diagnostic purposes, however, is not always straightforward as it may show dramatic changes with growth (see, e.g., Kottelat, 1998).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Order

Cypriniformes

Family

Cobitidae

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