Shadow Catfish

Hyalobagrus flavus

Large mixed shoals gather in blackwater swamps

Yellow
Tropical
Regional distribution
Freshwater fish
Southeast Asia
Elongated
Small
Tropical fish

Hyalobagrus flavus is a species of bagrid catfish endemic to Indonesia where it is known only from the Batang Hari drainage in Sumatra and the Mentaya River basin in southern Borneo where it inhabits brown water habitats that are closely associated with blackwater peat swamps. They occur in large shoals, sometimes mixed with other species of shoaling catfish such as Pseudeutropius brachypopterus and P. moolengurghae.

Class: Teleosts
Order: Catfishes
Family: Bagridae
Genus: Hyalobagrus
Maximum length: 4.4 cm
Water: Freshwater
Body shape: elongated
Distribution: Asia: currently known only from the Batang Hari drainage in Sumatra and the Mentaya basin in southern Borneo, Indonesia.
Conservation status: DDData Deficient

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