Cyprinidae

Pait

Barbodes amarus

No lake record since nineteen eighty two

• Tropical
• Local endemic species
• Restricted distribution
• Freshwater fish
• Southeast Asia
• Deep-bodied
• Compressed cross-section
• Small
• Tropical fish

Barbodes amarus, known as the pait locally, was a species of cyprinid fish endemic to Lake Lanao in Mindanao, the Philippines. This species reached a length of 10.8 centimetres (4.3 in). It was first identified from specimens collected from Lake Lanao in 1910 and 1922, and specimens were still present as recently as a 1982 survey of the lake.