High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Cobitis is a Palearctic genus of ray-finned fish in the family Cobitidae. It contains the typical spiny loaches, including the well-known Spined Loach (C. taenia) of temperate western Eurasia. Containing almost 60 named species as of mid-2008, at least two undescribed ones are also known. Similar spiny loaches, occurring generally south of the range of Cobitis, are noadays separated in Sabanejewia.