Editing Botia (section)

==Species==
There are currently nine recognized species in this genus:<ref name=Kottelat2012>Kottelat, M. (2012): [http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s26/Conspectus_cobitidum.pdf Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei).] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130211134858/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s26/Conspectus_cobitidum.pdf |date=February 11, 2013 }}  ''The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. No. 26: 1-199.''</ref>
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! Image !! Scientific name !! Common Name!! Distribution
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|[[File:Botia_lohachata.jpg|120px]] || ''[[Botia almorhae]]'' <small>[[John Edward Gray|J. E. Gray]], 1831</small> || Almorha loach, Yo-yo loach, Pakistani loach||  Ganges basin in northern India and possibly Nepal
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| || ''[[Birdi loach|Botia birdi]]'' <small>[[Banawari Lal Chaudhuri|B. L. Chaudhuri]], 1909</small> || Birdi loach||  India and Pakistan
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|[[File:Botia dario.jpg|120px]] || ''[[Botia dario]]'' <small>([[Francis Buchanan-Hamilton|F. Hamilton]], 1822)</small>  || Bengal loach, Queen loach|| the Brahmaputra and Ganges basins in Bangladesh, Bhutan and north India
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|[[File:Botia histrionica.jpg|120px]] || ''[[Botia histrionica]]'' <small>[[Edward Blyth|Blyth]], 1860</small>  ||Golden zebra loach||  India and Myanmar. Found in Salween basin
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|[[File:Botia kubotai3.jpg|120px]] || ''[[Botia kubotai]]'' <small>[[Maurice Kottelat|Kottelat]], 2004</small> || Burmese Border loach|| Myanmar
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| || ''[[Botia lohachata]]'' <small>B. L. Chaudhuri, 1912</small> || Reticulate loach||  Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Nepal.
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|||''[[Botia rostrata]]'' <small>[[Albert Günther|Günther]], 1868</small> || Gangetic loach, Sergeant major loach|| Bangladesh and north India
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|[[File:Botia striata.jpg|120px]] || ''[[Botia striata]]'' <small>[[C. R. Narayan Rao|Narayan Rao]], 1920</small> || Zebra loach||  Western Ghats of India
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|[[File:Botia sp Tenasserim.jpg|120px]] ||''[[Botia udomritthiruji]]'' <small>[[Ng Heok Hee|H. H. Ng]], 2007</small>  || Emperor loach|| south Burma. 
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