Lindog

Barbodes lindog

A food fish perhaps lost from shallow weedy bays

Tropical
Local endemic species
Restricted distribution
Freshwater fish
Southeast Asia
Fusiform
Small
Tropical fish

Barbodes lindog, known locally as the lindog, is a possibly extinct species of cyprinid fish endemic to Lake Lanao in Mindanao, the Philippines where it prefers shallow, weedy waters of the bays. This species can reach a length of 13.2 centimetres (5.2 in) TL. It is commercially important to local peoples as a food fish.

Class: Teleosts
Order: Minnows, Carps, and Loaches
Family: Cyprinidae
Genus: Barbodes
Water type: Freshwater
Body shape: fusiform