cobitidae

Lepidocephalichthys is a genus of ray-finned fish in the Cobitidae family.

The body forms of Cobitidae tend to be vermiform - worm-shaped, long and thin.

The Acanthophthalmus semicinctus is a small fresh water fish belonging to the Cobitidae family.

The Cobitidae are common across Eurasia and parts of North Africa.

'Cobitidae' is the family (biology) of the 'true loaches', which are Old World freshwater fish.

They have a number of similarities with the Cobitidae, their sibling family of "loaches", such as multiple barbels around the mouth.

Balitoridae and Cobitidae, meanwhile, contain a very large number of species about which essentially nothing is known except how they look and where they were first found.

But in a number of systematic schemes, they were placed in the Balitoridae (or Balitorinae, when these were included in the Cobitidae).

They are more robust than most of their relatives in the Cobitidae and tend to have a more or less arched back, yielding an altogether more fusiform shape.

Recently placed in the true loach family Cobitidae, in 2012 M. Kottelat revised the loaches and re-elevated this taxon to family rank.

The Dojo Loach, or Weather loach (Misgurnus anguillicaudatus), is a freshwater fish in the loach family Cobitidae.

The Cobitidae, Balitoridae, and Gyrinocheilidae are called loaches, although it seems that the last do not belong to the lineage of "true" loaches but are related to the suckers.

But more than 100 species remain in the Cobitidae, while the number of genera has almost doubled to nearly 30 in the past few years due to new discoveries and divisions of older genera.

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.

The alternate name weather loach is shared with several other Cobitidae, including the other members of the genus Misgurnus and the spotted weather loach (Cobitis taenia, commonly known as Spined Loach).

It has a long low dorsal fin unlike Cobitidae and looks much like a mix between a Misgurnus true loach and the Northern Snakehead (Channa argus) which is not a loach; both these fishes are quite familiar across East Asia.