''Parabotia'' is a genus of

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. Most species in the genus are

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to China, but ''P. curtis'' is from Japan, ''P. dubius'' is from

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, and ''P. mantschuricus'' is from the

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basin.

Species

There are currently 12 recognized species in this genus: * '' Parabotia banarescui'' (

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, 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'' (

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, 1846) (Ayumodoki, Kissing Loach) * '' Parabotia dubius'' Kottelat, 2001 * '' Parabotia fasciatus'' Dabry de Thiersant, 1872 * '' Parabotia heterocheilus'' Zhu & Chen, 2006 * '' Parabotia kiangsiensis'' R. L. Liu & Z. Z. Guo, 1986 * '' Parabotia lijiangensis'' J. X. Chen, 1980 * '' Parabotia maculosus'' ( H. W. Wu, 1939) * '' Parabotia mantschuricus'' ( L. S. Berg, 1907) (Manchurian spiny loach) * '' Parabotia parvus'' J. X. Chen, 1980 (Note that under nomenclatural rules, this genus must be considered as masculine even though all other genera ending in ''-botia'' are considered to be feminine. See reference for more information.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.)

References

Botiidae Fish of Asia {{Cypriniformes-stub