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Cobitidae
Peppered horseface loach
Acantopsis dinema
Tributaries of the Mekong from plateau to delta
Peppered horseface loach is known from Asia as a freshwater fish. It occurs in freshwater habitats.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Cobitidae
- Genus
- Acantopsis
- Maximum length
- 11.7 cm
- Water
- Freshwater
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- Asia: tributaries of the Mekong River draining the Khorat Plateau and Mekong Delta ecoregions in Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia; and Songkhram River in eastern Thailand to the Prek Thnot River south of Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

