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Gastromyzon aeroides TAN & SULAIMAN, 2006

March 13th, 2012 — 1:25pm

Field observations have revealed that individuals almost always position themselves facing into the flow, either along the sides, behind or under rocks, their specialised morphology (see ‘Notes’) allowing them to feed and maintain position without being swept away.

Not many fishes have been able to successfully colonise this narrow ecological niche, but syntopic species in nature include Gastromyzon extrorsus (Petagas River), G. introrsus, G. lepidogaster (Pad…

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