What Has Happened To The Botia Genus? Open To Find Out

[The-Wolf]

it would appear that a radical shakeup of the genus botia has happened
with many (now Ex-botias) being reclassified.

here are what I've found
Clowns (macracanthus are now in the genus Chromobotia all on their own
Chameleon (beauforti), Blyth's (berdmorei) & the three Tigers (helodes, hymenophysa & reversa) are now Syncrossus.
The Sun Group (caudipunctata, eos, lecontei, longidorsalis, modesta, morleti & splendida) are now Yasuhikotakia as are the dwarf/chain loach (sidthimunki) and false dwarf/chain (nigrolineata)

Source(s)
Fishbase
Integrated Taxonomic Information System

 

[Bloo]

Interesting - but also interesting because there are so many.

 

[Barracuda518]

it would appear that a radical shakeup of the genus botia has happened
with many (now Ex-botias) being reclassified.

here are what I've found
Clowns (macracanthus are now in the genus Chromobotia all on their own
Chameleon (beauforti), Blyth's (berdmorei) & the three Tigers (helodes, hymenophysa & reversa) are now Syncrossus.
The Sun Group (caudipunctata, eos, lecontei, longidorsalis, modesta, morleti & splendida) are now Yasuhikotakia as are the dwarf/chain loach (sidthimunki) and false dwarf/chain (nigrolineata)

Source(s)
Fishbase
Integrated Taxonomic Information System

I saw the new classification for the Clown Loach (Chromobotia) on another webpage and googled it and found out it was the clown loach

 

[mikev]

it would appear that a radical shakeup of the genus botia has happened
with many (now Ex-botias) being reclassified.

here are what I've found
Clowns (macracanthus are now in the genus Chromobotia all on their own
Chameleon (beauforti), Blyth's (berdmorei) & the three Tigers (helodes, hymenophysa & reversa) are now Syncrossus.
The Sun Group (caudipunctata, eos, lecontei, longidorsalis, modesta, morleti & splendida) are now Yasuhikotakia as are the dwarf/chain loach (sidthimunki) and false dwarf/chain (nigrolineata)

The new classification is not really new, it has been around for a while.

What is new is this: a group of researchers in Czech Republic just published a paper that analyzes genetic differences between Botia species. While it mostly confirms the new classification, it also has a few interesting moments. For example,
* they list TWO yoyo species.
* they found that Yasuhikotakia consists of two groups, only very remotely connected to each other.

 

[The-Wolf]

* they list TWO yoyo species.

So my earlier deduction was correct

 

[mikev]

* they list TWO yoyo species.

So my earlier deduction was correct

I agree with your deduction based on my own observations.

However, the paper is not clear on it. They do show some genetic difference between the two yoyo species, but there is no way to know what they think these species are, it may be not what you or I think. Further, since they worked with only 3 yoyo samples (this is from memory, I've read the paper about a month ago), it well may be that there are more different yoyo's out there.

I think the only statement we can make now is that some "non-standard" yoyo's are different from "classical" yoyo's (classical==you can read YOYO on them), and tend to be a larger species.

 

[wendywc]

So I guess the rule that "botia loaches are the ones to get to eat snails" needs to be thrown out the window now.

 

[millym]

i guess they need something to keep themselves busy & to justify their research funding! ive found your earlier posts on the possibility of 'yoyos' actually being 2 different types/species wolf, very interesting & looks like your observations have been confirmed as fact by the boffins!