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Cobitidae

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Cobitidae
Cobitis biwae
Cobitis paludica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Superfamily: Cobitoidei
Family: Cobitidae
Swainson, 1838[1]
Type species
Cobitis taenia
Linnaeus, 1758
Genera

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The Cobitidae, also known as true loaches, are a family of Old World freshwater fish. Cobitidae is also known as freshwater loach, snake carp, weatherfish, or elongated freshwater snakecarp loach. They live in freshwater lakes.


  1. Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 1–230. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1. PMID 25543675.