Yasuhikotakia is a genus of loaches, many which are popular aquarium

Aquarium

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 fish

Fish

Fish are a paraphyletic group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic vertebrate animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as various extinct related groups...

. It is named in honor of Japanese collector/researcher Dr. Yasuhiko Taki. This genus has been separated from the genus Botia

Botia

Botia is a genus of freshwater fish in the loach family . It was a large genus with about 20 species. In 2004 Maurice Kottelat proposed in his paper to divide the genus into four related genera based on fish appearance and locality:* Botia for Indian loaches .*...

 in the paper by Maurice Kottelat

Maurice Kottelat

Dr. Maurice Kottelat is a Swiss ichthyologist.In 1976 he entered the University of Neuchâtel where he obtained his diploma in 1987. In 1980 he went to Thailand where he began his field research on Southeast Asiatic and Indonesian fresh water fish species...

 in 2004. Some future study might further place Y. sidthimunki

Yasuhikotakia sidthimunki

The dwarf loach, ladderback loach, pygmy loach, chain loach or chain botia, Yasuhikotakia sidthimunki , is a popular freshwater tropical fish in aquariums belonging to the Cobitidae family....

and Y. nigrolineata in another genus.

Fishes of the genus Yasuhikotakia are found inhibiting river systems in Indochina

Indochina

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 such as Mekong, Chao Phraya

Chao Phraya River

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, and Mae Klong.

Species

• Yasuhikotakia caudipunctata (Taki & Doi, 1995)
• Yasuhikotakia eos (Taki, 1972) (Sun loach)
• Yasuhikotakia lecontei (Fowler
  Henry Weed Fowler
  Henry Weed Fowler was an American zoologist born in Holmesburg, Pennsylvania.He studied at Stanford University under David Starr Jordan...
  
  , 1937) (Silver loach)
• Yasuhikotakia longidorsalis (Taki & Doi, 1995)
• Yasuhikotakia modesta
  Yasuhikotakia modesta
  The blue botia, Yasuhikotakia modesta, is a tropical freshwater fish of the Cobitidae family of loaches. In the wild, it comes from large rivers in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam...
  
  (Bleeker
  Pieter Bleeker
  Pieter Bleeker was a Dutch medical doctor and ichthyologist, famous for his work on the fishes of East Asia – Atlas Ichthyologique des Orientales Neerlandaises – which was published 1862–1877....
  
  , 1864) (Redtail botia)
• Yasuhikotakia morleti
  Yasuhikotakia morleti
  The skunk loach, skunk botia or Hora's loach, Yasuhikotakia morleti , is a freshwater tropical fish found in the Mekong River and various rivers in Thailand. The maximum size is 10 cm and it occurs in water with parameters 26 - 30 ° C temperature, pH 6.0 to 8.0, hardness 5.0 to 12.0...
  
  (Tirant, 1885) (Skunk botia)
• Yasuhikotakia nigrolineata (Kottelat
  Maurice Kottelat
  Dr. Maurice Kottelat is a Swiss ichthyologist.In 1976 he entered the University of Neuchâtel where he obtained his diploma in 1987. In 1980 he went to Thailand where he began his field research on Southeast Asiatic and Indonesian fresh water fish species...
  
   & X. L. Chu, 1987)
• Yasuhikotakia sidthimunki
  Yasuhikotakia sidthimunki
  The dwarf loach, ladderback loach, pygmy loach, chain loach or chain botia, Yasuhikotakia sidthimunki , is a popular freshwater tropical fish in aquariums belonging to the Cobitidae family....
  
  (Klausewitz, 1959) (Dwarf botia)
• Yasuhikotakia splendida (T. R. Roberts, 1995)