Schistura bolavenensis

Schistura bolavenensis Kottelat, 2000

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Teleostei (teleosts) > Cypriniformes (Carps) > Nemacheilidae (Brook loaches)
Etymology: Schistura: Greek, schizein = to divide + Greek, oura = tail; an allusion to forked caudal fins (Ref. 45335); bolavenensis: Named after the Bolaven Plateau.
More on author: Kottelat.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Freshwater; benthopelagic. Tropical

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Asia: tributaries of the Xe Kong and Xe Don of the Mekong basin in Bolaven Plateau, Laos.

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Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 8.8 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 43281)

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Body slender, depth 12.8-14.6 %SL; caudal peduncle slender, depth 9.8-12.0 %SL, 1.5-1.7 times in length; head short, lateral length 19.7-23.3 %SL; anterior nostril pierced on front side of a flap; processus dentiformis present; upper and lower lip fleshy, interrupted medially; lateral line complete; anus about 1-2 eye diameters in front of anal-fin origin; 8.5 branched dorsal-fin rays; 5.5 branched anal-fin rays; caudal fin emarginate, with 9+8 branched rays; axillary pelvic lobe present; body with 15-24 bars, as wide or thinner than interspaces, quite regularly set; posteriormost bars sometimes incomplete, appearing as elongate blotches; black bar at caudal-fin base usually complete, or split at about two-thirds of its height; dorsal fin with 2-4 black spots along base, sometimes fused (Ref. 36949).
Body shape (shape guide): elongated.

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

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Kottelat, M., 2001. Fishes of Laos. WHT Publications Ltd., Colombo 5, Sri Lanka. 198 p. (Ref. 43281)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2)

  Endangered (EN) (B1ab(i,ii,iii)); Date assessed: 25 February 2011

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





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