The species was described in 1920 by C.R. Narayan Rao. "Botia" is derived from an Asian word for soldier or warrior, and striata is from the Latin and refers to the thin stripe pattern. In 1956, a conspecific was named Botia striata kolhapurensis by Kalawar & Kelkar but this is now deemed an (invalid) synonym.The subfamily Botiinae within the family Cobitidae is uncertain; Nalbant (2002, 2004) and Kottelat (2004) raised the subfamily to family status as Botiidae and divided it into two tribes:Tribe Leptobotiini - Leptobotia, Parabotia, Sinibotia. Tribe Botiini - Botia, Chromobotia, Syncrossus, Yasuhikotakia.Tang et.al. (2005) agreed. Slechtova et. al. (2006) basically agreed but proposed two Subfamilies rather than tribes, and moved one genus:
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