Taxonavigation

Familia: Botiidae
Genus: Chromobotia
Species: Chromobotia macracanthus

Name

Chromobotia macracanthus (Bleeker, 1852)

• Lectotype: RMNH 7058. Paralectotypes and/or Bleeker specimens: BMNH 1866.5.2.71 (1); RMNH 9111 (1), 17439 [ex RMNH 7058] (25); MNHN 000-1388 (1) Borneo, 0000-5708 (1) Sumatra; NMV A2062 (3); SMNS 10600 (1).
• Type locality: Palembang, River Kwanten, western Sumatra, Indonesia.

References

• Bleeker, P., 1852: Diagnostische beschrijvingen van nieuwe of weinig bekende vischsoorten van Sumatra. Tiental I–IV. Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië, 3: 569–608. Reference page. 
• Alfred, Eric R.; 1961: Notes on a re-examination of some Bleeker type specimens of Indo-Malayan fresh-water fishes. Part 1, Cobitidae and Homalopteridae. Bulletin of the Raffles Museum, 30: 32–37.
• Kottelat, M.; 2004: Botia kubotai, a new species of loach (Teleostei: Cobitidae) from the ataran River basin (Myanmar), with comments on botiinae nomenclature and diagnosis of a new genus. Zootaxa, 401: 1–18.
• Kottelat, M. 2012. Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 26(Supplement 26): 1–199. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

Links

• Cobitis macracanthus in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2022. Catalog of Fishes electronic version, accessed on September 6, 2014.
• Chromobotia macracanthus – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
• Chromobotia macracanthus in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2022. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 06/2022.

Vernacular names

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