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Cyprinidae
Speolabeo musaei
Speolabeo musaei
- Tropical
- Upper river
- Regional distribution
- Freshwater fish
- Southeast Asia
- Fusiform
- Compressed cross-section
- Small
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Freshwater fish
Fusiform
SmallSpeolabeo musaei is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Cyprinidae, the family which also includes the carps, barbs, minnows and related fishes. This species is a cavefish endemic to the Xe Bang Fai River in Laos.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Cyprinidae
- Genus
- Speolabeo
- Maximum length
- 7.7 cm
- Water
- Freshwater
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Asia: Xe Bangfai drainage (tributary of Mekong) in Central Laos. Known only from two caves ("Grotte des Nuages" and "Tham Pong") adjacent to the upstream extremity of the Xe Bangfai tunnel ("Tham Xe Bangfai" and "Tham Khoun Xe") (Ref. 86533 ).
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