Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Freshwater; brackish; demersal; dH range: 6 - 18. Subtropical; 10°C - 25°C (Ref. 13614)
Asia: China . Regularly imported from southern China to Europe. It is possible that this species has escaped in the European waters (Ref. 59043). Reported from Taiwan (Ref. 5193).
Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 21.5 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 117057); common length : 7.3 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 35840); max. published weight: 58.00 g (Ref. 117057)
Absence of dark spot at upper caudal base. Caudal peduncle with high adipose crests. Lamina circularis spade-shaped with crenulated posterior margin (Ref. 59043).
Facultative air-breathing (Ref. 126274)
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Kottelat, M., 2012. Conspectus cobitidum*: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. (26):1-199. (Ref. 92804)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 126983)
Threat to humans
Harmless
Human uses
Aquaculture: commercial
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