Cobitidae

Cobitidae
Cobitis biwae
Cobitis paludica
Scientific classification
Unrecognized taxon (fix): Cobitidae
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.


  1. ↑ 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.
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