: any of a family (Cobitidae) of small Old World freshwater fishes related to the carps
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The species’ unique physical features and genetic divergence from related loaches were key to its identification.
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Stories By Real-Time News Team, With Ai Summarization, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2025
Another set of photos show an army green loach with dark brown blotches.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 12 July 2024
The team also discovered a second new species of loach.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 12 July 2024
For example, one of the species reported in the contest, the oriental weather fish or dojo loach, is a freshwater fish introduced from Asia.
—Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 30 Nov. 2022
For nearly five decades, ichthyologists — zoologists focused on fish — have been searching for the loach.
—Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2021
There are at least 18 species in the watershed that are listed as threatened or endangered, including eight native fish species, such as loach minnows and razorback suckers.
—Ian James, AZCentral.com, 6 Sep. 2021
He was fascinated by the park’s large ornamental pond wriggling with goldfish, mosquitofish, and loaches.
—Ferris Jabr, Smithsonian, 8 Jan. 2018
As Andy Coghlan explains in The New Scientist, the cave loach seems to have diverged from surface fish some 20,000 years ago, when receding ice age glaciers made the Danube-Aach caves accessible.
—Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 5 Apr. 2017
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Stories By Real-Time News Team, With Ai Summarization, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2025
Another set of photos show an army green loach with dark brown blotches.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 12 July 2024
The team also discovered a second new species of loach.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 12 July 2024
For example, one of the species reported in the contest, the oriental weather fish or dojo loach, is a freshwater fish introduced from Asia.
—Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 30 Nov. 2022
For nearly five decades, ichthyologists — zoologists focused on fish — have been searching for the loach.
—Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2021
There are at least 18 species in the watershed that are listed as threatened or endangered, including eight native fish species, such as loach minnows and razorback suckers.
—Ian James, AZCentral.com, 6 Sep. 2021
He was fascinated by the park’s large ornamental pond wriggling with goldfish, mosquitofish, and loaches.
—Ferris Jabr, Smithsonian, 8 Jan. 2018
As Andy Coghlan explains in The New Scientist, the cave loach seems to have diverged from surface fish some 20,000 years ago, when receding ice age glaciers made the Danube-Aach caves accessible.
—Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 5 Apr. 2017
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