The golden loaches (Sabanejewia) are a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Cobitidae.
| Golden loach | |
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| Sabanejewia aurata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cobitidae |
| Genus: | Sabanejewia Vladykov, 1929 |
Species edit
There are currently 10 recognized species in this genus:[1]
- Sabanejewia aurata (De Filippi, 1863)
- Sabanejewia aurata aralensis (Kessler, 1877) (Aral spined loach)
- Sabanejewia aurata aurata (De Filippi, 1863) (golden spined loach)
- Sabanejewia balcanica (S. L. Karaman, 1922) (Balkan golden loach)
- Sabanejewia baltica Witkowski, 1994 (Northern golden loach)
- Sabanejewia bulgarica (Drensky, 1928)
- Sabanejewia caspia (Eichwald, 1838) (Caspian spined loach)
- Sabanejewia caucasica (L. S. Berg, 1906) (Ciscaucasian spined loach)
- Sabanejewia kubanica Vasil'eva & Vasil'ev, 1988
- Sabanejewia larvata (De Filippi, 1859) (Italian loach)
- Sabanejewia romanica (Băcescu, 1943) (Romanian loach)
- Sabanejewia vallachica (Nalbant, 1957) (Eastern Carpathian golden loach)
References edit
- ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Sabanejewia in FishBase. December 2012 version.