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Adrianichthyidae
Chinese rice fish
Oryzias sinensis
Adrianichthyid Fish in the Mekong Basin
- Blue
- Tropical
- Lower river
- Regional distribution
- Freshwater fish
- Central Asia
- Europe
- Elongated
- Small
- Tropical fish
Blue
Tropical
Regional distribution
Elongated
SmallChinese rice fish is known around Asia as a freshwater fish; It occurs in freshwater habitats, and the largest recorded length is 3.1 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Adrianichthyidae
- Genus
- Oryzias
- Maximum length
- 3.1 cm
- Water
- Freshwater
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- Asia: Mekong, Irrawaddy, Salween, Red River and Nanpangjiang basins (Ref. 43281 ). Introduced in Kazakhstan where it is now abundant; established in lower Kuban drainage; spreading in Azov basin, discovered in River Obitochnaya, Ukraine in 2003 (Ref. 59043 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
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Conservation status
