February 10th, 2013 — 4:40pm
Type locality is given only as ‘Sarawak state, Borneo, East Malaysia’, with the material deriving from Sibu Division in western Sarawak.
It’s since been recorded at other localities within Sarawak, to which it appears endemic, but it remains unclear whether all represent a single species or not with those from the area around Lundu in northwestern Kuching Division in par…
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November 17th, 2012 — 6:51pm
Not recommended for the standard community set-up for reasons already touched upon. It’s requirements and disposition mean it’s best kept alone or with very peaceful species since much bigger or more vigorous fishes are likely to intimidate and outcompete it.
Some small cyprinids and loaches that inhabit similar environments in nature are compat…
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March 13th, 2012 — 1:24pm
It can be told apart from other members of the B. pugnax group by the following characters: chin bar absent; prsence of transverse bars in the dorsal-fin; no transverse bars in caudal-fin; green iridescent scales present on opercle and body; anal fin with iridescent, light blue distal band; a pair black markings below the postorbital stripe on the opercle of females and juveniles; anal-fin rays 25-29 (mode 28); lateral scales 28-30 (mode 29); postdorsal scales 10-11 (mode 12); pelvic-fin length 34.8-50.6% SL; head length 33.4-36.8% SL; inter-orbital width 31.7-37.4% HL.
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March 13th, 2012 — 1:19pm
This species is uncommon in the aquarium hobby, although the scientific name is widely misapplied to Barbodes dunckeri, a similar-looking species native to Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore commonly referred to as ‘clown barb’ and labelled as B. everetti in the majority of available literature. The two are quite easy to tell apart, with B. everetti an overall less…
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Many thanks cyprin, the image has now been removed.
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