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Cyprinidae
Smallscale mud carp
Cirrhinus microlepis
Vulnerable Carp of the Mekong Basin
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- Freshwater fish
- Southeast Asia
- Fusiform
- Large
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Freshwater fish
Fusiform
LargeSmallscale mud carp is a freshwater fish of Asia. The species occupies freshwater habitats. The species reaches a recorded maximum of 65 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Cyprinidae
- Genus
- Cirrhinus
- Maximum length
- 65 cm
- Water
- Freshwater
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Asia: Chao Phraya and Mekong basins in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Viet Nam.
- Conservation status
- VUVulnerable
Class
Family
Conservation status
