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Parabotia
''Parabotia'' is a genus of loaches. Most species in the genus are endemic to China, but ''P. curtis'' is from Japan, ''P. dubius'' is from Vietnam, and ''P. mantschuricus'' is from the Amur River basin. Species There are currently 12 recognized species in this genus: * '' Parabotia banarescui'' (Nalbant, 1965) * '' Parabotia bimaculatus'' J. X. Chen, 1980 * '' Parabotia brevirostris'' D. G. Zhu & Y. Zhu, 2012Zhu, D.-g. & Zhu, Y. (2012)Description of a New Species of ''Parabotia'' Fish from Guangxi, China (Cypriniformes: Cobitidae). ''Journal of Yunnan Agricultural University, 27 (3): 447-449.'' (Chinese w/English abstract) * '' Parabotia curtus'' (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) (Ayumodoki, Kissing Loach) * '' Parabotia dubius'' Kottelat Maurice Kottelat (born 16 July 1957 in Delémont, Switzerland [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parabotia Curtus
The Ayumodoki or Kissing Loach (''Parabotia curtus'') is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Botiidae.Kottelat, M. (2012)Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). ''The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology'', Supplement No. 26: 1-199. It is found in lakes and streams on Honshu, the largest island of Japan. Spawning grounds for kissing loach are ditches and small reservoirs for rice cultivation of a river system located in Japan. The kissing loach migrates to flooded areas, including paddy field A paddy field is a flooded field (agriculture), field of arable land used for growing Aquatic plant, semiaquatic crops, most notably rice and taro. It originates from the Neolithic rice-farming cultures of the Yangtze River basin in sout ... areas, for spawning in early summer and the spawning of this species is limited after the formation of flooded areas over terrestrial vegetation., and the dissolved oxygen at the bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |