Koreocobitis
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Koreocobitis is a small genus of loaches containing two species, both of which are endemic to the Korean Peninsula
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Korean Peninsula
The Korean Peninsula is a peninsula in East Asia. It extends southwards for about 684 miles from continental Asia into the Pacific Ocean and is surrounded by the Sea of Japan to the south, and the Yellow Sea to the west, the Korea Strait connecting the first two bodies of water.Until the end of...
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Species
- Koreocobitis naktongensis I. S. Kim, J. Y. Park & Nalbant, 2000
- Koreocobitis rotundicaudata (Wakiya & MoriTamezo Mori, was a Japanese naturalist in Korea while it was under Japanese Rule . He taught at a prep school for Keijō Imperial University in Seoul, Korea from 1909 until he was expelled by the American forces in 1945. Primarily an ichthyologist, he published numerous works on the zoology of the Korean...
, 1929) (White nose loach)