Rasbora cephalotaenia

(Bleeker, 1852)

Vernacular names
English : Porthole rasbora
French : Rasbora à hublot

Classification
Class : Teleostei
Order : Cypriniformes
Family : Danionidae (sometimes still Cyprinidae)
Notes : No subspecies known.

Identification
Adults can grow to 13 cm long. Elongated body with flattened head. Coloration has a pinkish-yellowish hue with black stripe running from mouth through eye to gill coverts. From there, this stripe becomes two lines of black dots that go all the way to the tail. Back scales are edged with black, forming a criss-cross pattern. Tail fin is yellow with a black blotch at its base.

Range and habitat
The species occurs in southeast Asia, in most of Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Bangka, Belitung and western half of Kalimantan. It lives in blackwater rivers and streams with a specialization in acidic forest streams.

Conservation
IUCN RED LIST : LEAST CONCERN
CITES : Not Listed
Status : The species’ favored habitats are disappearing fast because of deforestation for industrial scale plantations throughout the species’ range. This could lead to quite steep declines in the species’ populations, even local extinctions.
Ex-Situ Programs : None known

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