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Gobionidae
Barbel steed
Hemibarbus labeo
Fish Reaching Sixty Seven Centimeters in the Mekong Basin
- Temperate
- Regional distribution
- Freshwater fish
- East Asia
- Southeast Asia
- Fusiform
- Large
- Temperate fish
Temperate
Regional distribution
Freshwater fish
Fusiform
LargeBarbel steed is a freshwater fish found around Asia. It inhabits freshwater habitats. The species reaches a recorded maximum of 67 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Gobionidae
- Genus
- Hemibarbus
- Maximum length
- 67 cm
- Water
- Freshwater
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Asia: throughout the Amur basin (Ref. 1441 ); eastern Asia from the Amur basin to northern Vietnam, Japan and islands of Hainan and Taiwan (Ref. 26334 ). Recorded from Mekong basin in Laos which apparently the result of introduction, either in Laos, or more likely upriver in Mekong basin in China (Ref. 37786 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
