Cyprinidae

Katapa-tapa

Barbodes flavifuscus

A brownish Lanao fish gone since the sixties

• Brown
• Tropical
• Regional distribution
• Freshwater fish
• Southeast Asia
• Fusiform
• Compressed cross-section
• Small
• Tropical fish

Barbodes flavifuscus, known locally as the katapa-tapa, was a species of cyprinid fish endemic to Lake Lanao in Mindanao, the Philippines. This species reached a length of 10.5 centimetres (4.1 in) SL. Last reported in 1964, It is now considered extinct.