Parabotia is a genus of loaches. Most species in the genus are endemic to China, but P. curtus 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, 2012 Parabotia curtus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) (Ayumodoki, Kissing Loach) Parabotia dubius Kottelat, 2001 Parabotia fasciatus Dabry de Thiersant, 1872 Parabotia heterocheila 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.)
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