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Cobitidae

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Description

Cobitidae, also known as the True loaches, is a family of Old World freshwater fish. They occur throughout Eurasia and in Morocco, and inhabit riverine ecosystems. Today, most "loaches" are placed in other families (see below). The family includes about 260 described species. New species are being described regularly.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobitidae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	3385	https://www.gbif.org/species/3385
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	265758	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=265758

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Actinopterygii : Cypriniformes : Cobitidae

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Actinopteri : Cypriniformes : Cobitidae

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
superclass	Actinopterygii
class	Actinopteri
subclass	Neopterygii
-	Teleosteomorpha	Arratia et al. 2004
-	Teleostei
-	Osteoglossocephalai
-	Clupeocephala	Patterson and Rosen 1977
-	Otomorpha
-	Ostariophysi
-	Otophysa
superorder	Cyprinae
order	Cypriniformes	Bleeker 1859
family	Cobitidae

Scientific Name

Cobitidae

Name Published In

in Lardner, The Cabinet Cyclopedia, vol. 2, p. 190

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Cobitidae	family	belongs to Eventognathi	stated without evidence	Jordan, 1963
Cobitidae	family	belongs to Cypriniformes	implied	Böhme, 2008
Cobitidae	family	belongs to Cypriniformes	stated with evidence	Betancur-R et al., 2013

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

2 (67%)

First Recorded Appearance

28.4 - 23.0 Ma
Cenozoic

Environment

freshwater (based on Cypriniformes)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Cypriniformes)

Diet

omnivore (based on Cypriniformes)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

R. Betancur-R., R. E. Broughton, and E. O. Wiley, K. Carpenter, J. A. López, C. Li, N. I. Holcroft, D. Arcila, M. Sanciangco, J. C. Cureton, F. Zhang, T. Buser, M. A. Campbell, J. A. Ballesteros, A. Roa-Varon, S. Willis, W. C. Borden, T. Rowley, P. C. Reneau, G. Lu, T. Grande, G. Arratia, G. 2013. The tree of life and a new classification of bony fishes. PLOS Currents Tree of Life

Common Name(s)

Loaches, Nissögefiskar, Sandsmettfamilien, Loches, Lochas

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobitidae

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Acanthopsoides genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acantopsis genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ambastaia genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Bibarba genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Botia genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Canthophrys genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chromobotia genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cobitis genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	28.4 Ma Oligocene	0 Ma Extant
Iksookimia genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kichulchoia genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Koreocobitis genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kottelatlimia genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Lepidocephalichthys genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Lepidocephalus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Leptobotia genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microcobitis genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Misgurnus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neoeucirrhichthys genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Niwaella genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pangio genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Parabotia genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Paralepidocephalus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Paramisgurnus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Protocobitis genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sabanejewia genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sinibotia genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Syncrossus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Theriodes genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yasuhikotakia genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sabanejevia aurata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Botiidae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Chordata : Actinopterygii : Cypriniformes : Botiidae

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1963	Cobitidae Jordan p. 644
2008	Cobitidae Böhme p. 163
2013	Cobitidae Betancur-R. et al.

References

Betancur-R. R., Broughton R. E., et al (2013) The tree of life and a new classification of bony fishes, PLOS Currents Tree of Life doi:10.1371/currents.tol.53ba26640df0ccaee75bb165c8c26288

Jordan D. S. (1963) The Genera of Fishes and a Classification of Fishes, Stanford University Press, 1-816

Böhme M. (2008) Ectothermic vertebrates (Teleostei, Allocaudata, Urodela, Anura, Testudines, Choristodera, Crocodylia, Squamata) from the Upper Oligocene of Oberleichtersbach (Northern Bavaria, Germany), Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 260, 161-183

Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2019). Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2019. - via World Register of Marine Species

Van Der Laan, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Fricke, R. (2014). Family-group names of Recent fishes. Zootaxa. 3882(1): 1-230. - via World Register of Marine Species

International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinion 1500 Cobitis Linnaeus, 1758 (Osteichthyes, Cypriniformes): Cobitis taenia Linnaeus, 1758 designated as the type species, and the original spelling of the family-group name Cobitidae Swainson, 1839 confirmed.Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 45, 178-179 (1988) - via Official Lists and Indexes of Names in Zoology

Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, A. L. Gardner, and W. C. Starnes, 2003: null. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Robins, Richard C., Reeve M. Bailey, Carl E. Bond, James R. Brooker, Ernest A. Lachner, et al., 1991: World Fishes Important to North Americans Exclusive of Species from the Continental Waters of the United States and Canada. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 21. 243. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Benton (1993) (as Cobitididae) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Robins, Richard C., Reeve M. Bailey, Carl E. Bond, James R. Brooker, Ernest A. Lachner, et al., 1980: A List of Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States and Canada, Fourth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 12. 174. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Nelson, Joseph S., Edwin J. Crossman, H. Espinosa-Pérez, L. T. Findley, C. R. Gilbert, et al., eds., 2004: Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, Sixth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 29. ix + 386. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Eschmeyer online (Jul 2012) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Robins, Richard C., Reeve M. Bailey, Carl E. Bond, James R. Brooker, Ernest A. Lachner, et al., 1991: Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States and Canada, Fifth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 20. 183. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Nelson, Joseph S., 1994: null. Fishes of the World, Third Edition. xvii + 600. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

FishBase - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Gärdenfors, Ulf, Hall, Ragnar, Hallingbäck, Tomas, Hansson, Hans G. & Hedström, Lars (2003) Djur, svampar och växter i Sverige 2003. Förteckning över antal arter per familj. ArtDatabanken Rapporterar 5, ArtDatabanken, Uppsala. (reviderad excelfil med svenska djurfamiljer). - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

WoRMS Editorial Board (2017) World Register of Marine Species - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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