In 2004, Dr Maurice Kottelat reclassified many of the former Botia group loaches, placing some into newly erected genera. The loach formerly known as Botia sidthimunki is currently referred to as ...

Botiid loaches are distributed from the Indus river drainage in Pakistan east to China and Japan and south to Sumatra and Borneo. There are seven genera: Botia, Chromobotia, Leptobotia, Parabotia, ...