January 26th, 2013 — 12:58pm
There appears to be some discrepancy between Smith’s original description and Kottelat (1990) in that Smith states the fish is a member of a group of species lacking an ocellus at the upper caudal-fin base, whereas Kottelat mentions the presence of ‘a black spot at upper extremity of caudal-fin base, surrounded by a whitish area’.
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January 26th, 2013 — 11:42am
Should not prove difficult to maintain under the correct conditions. We strongly recommend keeping it in a tank designed to resemble a flowing stream or river with a substrate of variably-sized rocks, sand, fine gravel, and some water-worn boulders.
This can be further furnished wit…
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January 24th, 2013 — 3:16pm
Most importantly the water must be clean and well-oxygenated so we suggest the use of an over-sized filter as a minimum requirement.
Turnover should ideally be 10-15 times per hour so additional powerheads, airstones, etc. should also be employed as necessary.
Base substr…
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January 17th, 2013 — 9:13pm
It’s known from five caves in total, the others being Tham Huet, Tham Ban Louk Kow Larm, Tham Nong Pha Cham, and Tham Mae Lana.
Streams flowing from these caves drain into the Nam Lang and Nam Khong rivers of the Salween drainage system, and the two easternmost caves, Tham Huet and Tham Nong Pha Cham, are both tributaries of the former.
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January 16th, 2013 — 9:25pm
This species is sometimes traded for aquaria but its name also appears to have been widely misapplied to other fishes.
It can be identified via the following combination of characters: presence of 8-10 quite regular dark bars…
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January 16th, 2013 — 12:00pm
The type locality consisted of remnant ephemeral pools in otherwise dry agricultural land, and many adults were collected from such habitats.
Other species present included the congener L. hasselti plus members of Anabas, ‘Puntius‘, Rasbora, Channa, and Hampala.
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January 16th, 2013 — 11:07am
According to Kottelat (2012) L. manipurensis Arunkumar, 2000, which was described from Moreh, Manipur state, northeastern India, close to the border with Myanmar, is a syonym of L. micropogon.
Havird and Page (2010) differentiate the two based on caudal-fin patterning, predorsal length and ver…
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January 15th, 2013 — 8:51pm
On Koh Chang one habitat consisted of a stream flowing from the waterfall Nam Tok Mai Yom which empties into the Gulf of Thailand after less than 1 km.
The stream was dry in its lower reaches and had a substrate of boulders and pebbles. Sympatric fi…
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January 15th, 2013 — 7:09pm
This species is distributed in the middle Mekong River basin in north and northeastern Thailand, Myanmar and Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan province, southern China, and is also known from the Nam Beng, Nam Tha and Nam Yuoan drainages in Laos.
Type locality is ‘Laun We (Loi Mw…
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January 8th, 2013 — 1:54pm
Type locality is ‘Tham [=cave] Phra Sai Ngam, about 200 meters from entrance, Thung Salaeng Luang National Park, Phitsanulok Province, Thailand, 16°37’22″N, 100°39’47″E’, and this species is endemic to the Tham Phra Sai Ngam cave system.
Tham Phra Sai Ngam is a limestone cave system about 1.7 km long and containing a subterranean stre…
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