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Article from China/What might this be:Golden loach?
Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 11:27 am
by noahm
This is a link to article on the english China Daily website. Does anyone know what kind of fish this is?
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2006 ... 597659.htm
Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 6:23 pm
by Martin Thoene
Hmmmm....red eyes seems to indicate albinism, so rather than "species" maybe it should say "form" or something along those lines. At that size in a "mountain stream" I would hazard a guess at an albino or certainly golden colour morph of a Leptobotia or Sinobotia species.
Pure guesswork without a picture.
Martin.
Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 6:27 pm
by Mike Ophir
I agree, most likely a Leptobotia of some sort. Sinibotia tend to be found in southern China...interesting...wish there was a photo...
Mike
Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 6:41 pm
by Martin Thoene
You might work it out by going through the 20 pages of this list:
http://www.fishbase.org/Country/Species ... c_code=156
Happy hunting!
Martin.