| Main Ref. | Chen, Y.-X., H. Chen, D.-K. He and Y.-F. Chen, 2018 |
| Appearance refers to | |
| Bones in OsteoBase |
| Specialized organs | |
| Different appearance | |
| Different colors | |
| Remarks |
| Striking features | |
| Body shape lateral (shape guide) | |
| Cross section | compressed |
| Dorsal head profile | |
| Type of eyes | |
| Type of mouth/snout | |
| Position of mouth | |
| Type of scales | |
| Diagnosis |
he species of Cobitis is distinguished by the following set of characters: D III-7; A: III-5; V: I-6; P: I-7-8; C: IV-14-16-IV. Compressed and small head. Rounded snout. Location of the eyes are on the upper middle of the head. Small mouth with three pairs of short barbels. Colouration: Head sprinkled with many black dots, and a black stripe extended from the insertion of rostral barbels to eye. One small jet spot on the upper half of the caudal fin base and way smaller than eye diameter. |
| Ease of Identification |
| Lateral Lines | Interrupted: No |
| Scales on lateral line | |
| Pored lateral line scales | |
| Scales in lateral series | |
| Scale rows above lateral line | |
| Scale rows below lateral line | |
| Scales around caudal peduncle | |
| Barbels | |
| Gill clefts (sharks/rays only) | |
| Gill rakers | |
| on lower limb | |
| on upper limb | |
| total | |
| Vertebrae | |
| preanal | |
| total |
| Attributes | |
| Fins number | 1 |
| Finlets No. | Dorsal |
| Ventral | |
| Spines total | 3 - 3 |
| Soft-rays total | 7 - 7 |
| Adipose fin |
| Attributes |
| Fins number | 1 |
| Spines total | 3 - 3 |
| Soft-rays total | 5 - 5 |
| Pectoral | Attributes |
| Spines 1 | |
| Soft-rays 6 - 7 | |
| Pelvics | Attributes |
| Position | |
| Spines | |
| Soft-rays |