Cobitidae

Horseface loach

Acantopsis dialuzona

Swift clear streams and even flooded rice fields

• Tropical
• Regional distribution
• Freshwater fish
• Southeast Asia
• Elongated
• Medium
• Tropical fish

Acantopsis dialuzona is a loach native to the swift, clear streams and rivers of mainland and archipelagic Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand, but Southeast Asia outside its range, including as Acantopsis. A. choirorhynchos because of the lack of taxonomic resolution in Acantopsis. It can also be found in flooded fields.