Taxonavigation

Familia: Botiidae
Genus: Botia
Species: B. almorhae – B. birdi – B. dario – B. histrionica – B. kubotai – B. lohachata – B. rostrata – B. striata – B. udomritthiruji

Name

Botia Gray, 1831

• Type species: Botia almorhae Gray, 1831, by monotypy.
• Gender: feminine

References

• Gray, J. E. (1831) Description of twelve new genera of fish, discovered by Gen. Hardwicke, in India, the greater part in the British Museum. Zoological Miscellany 1831: 7–9.

• 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. 

Vernacular names

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