botia, Cobitis Hamilton [F.] 1822:350, 394 [An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges; ref. 2031] Northeastern Bengal [Brahmapatra Riber, Goalpara, India on Hora 1929]. Neotype: BMNH 1889.2.1.1562. Neotype designated by Singer & Page 2015:388 [ref. 33823]. Information on type locality (originally Gualpara, Assam, India) see Britz 2019:46 [ref. 37532]. Hamilton's original, unpublished illustration reproduced by Britz 2019:Pl. 216 [ref. 37532]. •Valid as Nemacheilus botia (Hamilton 1822) -- (Shrestha 1978:37 [ref. 15970] as Noemacheilus, Menon 1987:141 [ref. 14149] as Noemachelius, Ataur Rahman 1989:145 [ref. 24860] as Nemachilus, Talwar & Jhingran 1991:472 [ref. 20764], Singh & Yazdani 1993:199 [ref. 24022] as Noemacheilus, Sen 1995:546 [ref. 23778], Zacharias et al. 1996:40 [ref. 25526], Sen 1999:197 [ref. 24750] as Noemacheilus, Menon 1999:180 [ref. 24904] as Noemacheilus, Karmakar 2000:30 [ref. 25662] as Noemacheilus, Yadav 2003:16 [ref. 27711]). •Valid as Acanthocobitis botia (Hamilton 1822) -- (Kottelat 1990:28 [ref. 14137], Bănărescu & Nalbant 1995:433 [ref. 23187], Doi 1997:16 [ref. 22832], Kullander et al. 1999:153 [ref. 23689], Rafique 2000:325 [ref. 25220], Mirza 2000:356 [ref. 25207], Vishwanath & Laisram 2001:200 [ref. 25886], Rafique et al. 2003:97 [ref. 27173], Mirza 2003:13 [ref. 27265], Ataur Rahman 2003:164 [ref. 31338], Shrestha 2008:129 [ref. 29923], Conway et al. 2011:1746 [ref. 31594], Kottelat 2012:50 [ref. 31992], Kottelat 2012:75 [ref. 32367], Ahmed et al. 2013:286 [ref. 32872], Gurung et al. 2013:4883 [ref. 32969], Kottelat 2013:198 [ref. 32989], Khynrian & Sen 2014:8 [ref. 33853], Zhang et al. 2016:127 [ref. 34477]). •Valid as Acanthocobitis botia (Hamilton 1822), but a valid subgenus Paracanthocobitis (Hamilton 1822) -- (Grant 2008:14 [ref. 33826]). •Valid as Paracanthocobitis botia (Hamilton 1822) -- (Singer & Page 2015:386 [ref. 33823], Bleher 2018:190 [ref. 36647], Shangningam et al. 2019:533 [ref. 39230], Kosygin et al. 2022:663 [ref. 40736], Rime et al. 2022: 130 [ref. 39078], Tudu et al. 2022:43 [ref. 40484]). Current status: Valid as Paracanthocobitis botia (Hamilton 1822). Nemacheilidae. Distribution: South Asia: Pakistan, India, Bhutan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand and Yunnan (China). IUCN (2009): Least Concern. Habitat: freshwater.