Loaches are freshwater fishes of the family Cobitidae, small bottom-dwelling fishes with a flattened ventral profile. Many of the 160 species are brightly_colored and popular with freshwateraquarists. Some species are popular as food fish in Japan.
Referenced by Shakespeare in Henry IV, part 1: "Why, they will allow us ne'er a jordan, and then we leak in your chimney; and your chamber-lie breeds fleas like a loach." (Act 2)
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Economidis, P. and Nalbant, T. A study of the loaches of the genera *Cobitis* and *Sabanejewia* (Pisces, Cobitidae) of Greece, with description of six new taxa.
Kim, I.-S. and Lee, Y.-J., 1987 A new subspecies of cobitid fish (Pisces: Cobitidae) from the Paikchon Stream, Chollabuk-do, Korea.
Myers, G. *Puntius streeteri*, a new cyprinoid fish from Borneo, and *Cobitophis*, a new genus of Bornean Cobitidae.
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