Acanthocobitis is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fish of the stone loach family, Nemacheilidae.

Recent work has suggested that the genus be split into two with the former subgenus Paracanthocobitis being raised to a full species, leaving just the type species, Acanthocobitis pavonacea, in the current genus.

[2] The following species are included in Acanthocobitis:[3][4]