Species that contain: Botia and histrionica [ 3 ] records

histrionica, Botia Blyth [E.] 1860:166 [Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal v. 29 (no. 2); ref. 477] Pegu, Tenasserim, Myanmar. Holotype: ZSI F2634/1. Type catalog: Menon & Yazdani 1968:120 [ref. 20743]. •Valid as Botia histrionica Blyth 1860 -- (Talwar & Jhingran 1991:539 [ref. 20764], Menon 1992:41 [ref. 23970], Sen 1995:557 [ref. 23778], Zhu 1995:122 [ref. 25213], Doi 1997:15 [ref. 22832], Chen & Zhang in Chen 1998:87 [ref. 23556], Menon 1999:158 [ref. 24904], Karmakar 2000:31 [ref. 25662], Nalbant 2002:318 [ref. 27361], Kottelat 2004:12 [ref. 27360], Ng 2007:47 [ref. 29316], Grant 2007:34 [ref. 29922] with several forms, Shrestha 2008:143 [ref. 29923], Kottelat 2012:16 [ref. 32367], Kottelat 2013:174 [ref. 32989], Zhang et al. 2016:154 [ref. 34477], Bohlen et al. 2016:17 [ref. 34628], Bleher 2018:278 [ref. 36647]). Current status: Valid as Botia histrionica Blyth 1860. Botiidae: Botiinae. Distribution: Chindwin and Salween River basins, Nepal, India and Myanmar. Habitat: freshwater.

lohachata, Botia Chaudhuri [B. L.] 1912:441, Pl. 40 (figs. 2, 2a-b) [Records of the Indian Museum (Calcutta) v. 7 (pt. 5) (art. 35); ref. 14837] Gandak [Sandak] River at Saran, Bihar, India. Holotype (unique): ZSI F 8068/1. Type catalog: Menon & Yazdani 1968:120 [ref. 20743]. •Synonym of Botia almorhae Gray 1831 -- (Menon 1992:32 [ref. 23970], Menon 1999:155 [ref. 24904]). •Questionably a synonym of Botia almorhae Gray 1831 -- (Kottelat 2004:12 [ref. 27360]). •Valid as Botia lohachata Chaudhuri 1912 -- (Shrestha 1978:37 [ref. 15970], Ataur Rahman 1989:155 [ref. 24860], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:539 [ref. 20764], Sen 1995:557 [ref. 23778], Karmakar 2000:31 [ref. 25662], Nalbant 2002:318 [ref. 27361], Mirza 2003:13 [ref. 27265], Ataur Rahman 2003:174 [ref. 31338], Grant 2007:28 [ref. 29922], Shrestha 2008:143 [ref. 29923], Conway et al. 2011:1755 [ref. 31594], Kottelat 2012:16 [ref. 32367], Bohlen et al. 2016:17 [ref. 34628], Bleher 2018:280 [ref. 36647]). •Synonym of Botia histrionica Blyth 1860 -- (Kottelat 2013:174 [ref. 32989] with question). Current status: Valid as Botia lohachata Chaudhuri 1912. Botiidae: Botiinae. Distribution: Northern Himalaya Foothills, India, Nepal and Bangladesh [Myanmar with question]. Habitat: freshwater.

rostrata, Botia Günther [A.] 1868:367, Fig. [Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum v. 7; ref. 1990] Bengal, India. Syntypes: BMNH 1855.12.26.694 (1), 1860.3.19.114 (1). See Grant 2007:17 [ref. 29922] for identification of the syntypes and nomenclatural consequences. •Synonym of Botia almorhae Gray 1831 -- (Menon 1992:32 [ref. 23970], Menon 1999:155 [ref. 24904]). •Questionably a synonym of Botia almorhae Gray 1831 -- (Kottelat 2004:12 [ref. 27360]). •Valid as Botia rostrata Günther 1868 -- (Talwar & Jhingran 1991:540 [ref. 20764], Sen 1995:557 [ref. 23778], Zhu 1995:122 [ref. 25213], Doi 1997:16 [ref. 22832], Karmakar 2000:31 [ref. 25662], Nalbant 2002:318 [ref. 27361], Ng 2007:46 [ref. 29316], Grant 2007:16 [ref. 29922], Kottelat 2012:16 [ref. 32367], Bleher 2018:284 [ref. 36647]). •Synonym of Botia histrionica Blyth 1860 -- (Zhang et al. 2016:154 [ref. 34477]). Current status: Valid as Botia rostrata Günther 1868. Botiidae: Botiinae. Distribution: Khasi Hills, northeastern India. Habitat: freshwater.