Blue Botia

Fish > Loaches

The Blue Botia (Yasuhikotakia modesta), also celebrated as the Red-finned Loach, is an impressive, highly active freshwater river fish native to the mighty river systems of mainland Southeast Asia. Famous for its dazzling color contrast—featuring a solid, velvety...

Razorback Sucker

Fish > Suckerfishes & Loaches

The Razorback Sucker (Xyrauchen texanus), also celebrated as the Humpback Sucker, is one of the most anatomically extraordinary freshwater fish on Earth. Endemic to the turbulent, sediment-laden waters of the Colorado River system, it is crowned with a sharp, bony,...

Lost River Sucker

Fish > Suckerfishes & Loaches

The Lost River Sucker (Deltistes luxatus) is a magnificent, colossal freshwater fish endemic to the Upper Klamath River Basin of southern Oregon and northern California. The sole living member of the genus Deltistes, it is the largest sucker in the Klamath Basin,...

Shortnose Sucker

Fish > Suckerfishes & Loaches

The Shortnose Sucker (Chasmistes brevirostris) is an imperiled, long-lived freshwater fish endemic to the Upper Klamath River Basin of southern Oregon and northern California. Known to the indigenous Klamath and Modoc peoples as ‘c’waam’, this...

Yoyo Loach

Fish > Loaches

The Yoyo Loach (Botia almorhae), also celebrated as the Almora Loach, is an energetic, highly patterned freshwater fish native to the pristine mountain streams and river basins of northern India and Nepal. It earned its famous playful name because the bold black...