Genus Cobitis Linnaeus, 1758

152. Cobitis avicennae Mousavi-Sabet, Vatandoust, Esmaeili, Geiger & Freyhof, 2015 [E]-[NE], Avicenna spined loach/Tigris (Persian Gulf basin) (Mousavi-Sabet et al., 2015c). Its occurrence has been confirmed in the Sirvan River by Mouludi-Saleh et al. (2022b).

153. Cobitis faridpaki Mousavi-Sabet, Vasil’eva, Vatandoust & Vasil’ev, 2011 [E]-[NE], Faridpak’s spine loach or Siahrud spined loach/Caspian Sea basin (Mousavi-Sabet et al., 2011).

154. Cobitis linea (Heckel, 1847) [E]-[NE], Persepolis or Kor spined loach/Kor basin (Esmaeili et al., 2017a, 2018).

155. Cobitis saniae Eagderi, Jouladeh-Roudbar, Jalili, Sayyadzadeh & Esmaeili, 2017 [N]-[NE], Sania’s spined loach/Caspian Sea basin (Eagderi et al., 2017c).