Clown loach
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An illustration based on the real animal.
A little discovery to share.
Clown loaches can extend spines beneath their eyes.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Clown loach
- Scientific name
- Chromobotia macracanthus
- Japanese name
- クラウンローチ
- Group
- Freshwater animals
- Order
- Cypriniformes
- Family
- Botiidae
- Genus
- Chromobotia
It is also listed under the scientific name Botia macracanthus.
How the Clown loach lives
They live on the bottoms of rivers and canals. They eat plant matter, algae, snails, and other food. They often hide under rocks or pieces of wood, or inside mud.
Virginia ZooBasic data
- Range
- Indonesia
Where the Clown loach has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- クラウンローチ
- 简体中文
- 皇冠沙鳅
- 繁體中文
- 皇冠沙鰍
- Español
- Locha payaso
- Deutsch
- Prachtschmerle
- Português (Brasil)
- Bótia-palhaço
- Italiano
- Botia pagliaccio
- العربية
- كلون لوتش
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Botia Badut
- Tiếng Việt
- Clown loach
- Русский
- Боция-клоун
- ไทย
- ปลาหมูอินโด
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — クラウンローチChecked: 2026-11-04
- Virginia Zoo — Clown LoachChecked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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