| Introduced in the Krian rice-bowl area, northwestern Peninsular Malaysia. Has colonized swamps, canals and rice paddies where it yields 94-202 kg/ha but has been badly affected by double cropping of rice and wide use of pesticides (Ref. 6095). An important fish for the subsistence fisheries in the paddy growing areas (Ref. 84801). Has also displaced to some extent the native T. trichopterus (Ref. 6095). There has been no serious attempt to list the introduced species nor to identify threats they posed (Ref. 84801).
Ref:
Ang, K.J., R. Gopinath and T.E. Chua, 1989
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