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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.
12 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 12 known species
Kissing Loach
speciesParabotia curtus
Parabotia fasciatus
speciesParabotia fasciatus
Parabotia mantschuricus
speciesParabotia mantschuricus
Parabotia kiangsiensis
speciesParabotia kiangsiensis
Parabotia dubius
speciesParabotia dubius
Parabotia banarescui
speciesParabotia banarescui
Parabotia lijiangensis
speciesParabotia lijiangensis
Parabotia bimaculatus
speciesParabotia bimaculatus
Parabotia maculosus
speciesParabotia maculosus
Parabotia heterocheila
speciesParabotia heterocheila
Parabotia parvus
speciesParabotia parvus
Parabotia brevirostris
speciesParabotia brevirostris
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 90667.