Systomus rubripinnis

(Valenciennes, 1842)

Vernacular names
English : Javaen barb
French : Barbus de Java

Classification
Class : Teleostei
Order : Cypriniformes
Family : Cyprinidae
Notes : No subspecies known. This is likely a species complex. S. orphoides is treated as a synonym for the time being.

Identification
The species grows to 25 cm long. Body fairly cylindrical, round and short snout, bright red eyes. Coloration olive-brown with a golden tinge on flanks. Broad black bar just after gill coverts and black spot on tail peduncle. All fins more or less strongly tinged red, gill coverts with bright red spot. Tail fin with two broad black margins, one on each lobe.

Range and habitat
The species occurs patchily in Southeast Asia, from central-south Myanmar to western and Central Thailand, in Laos and parts of Cambodia in the Mekong river basin, in parts of Peninsular Malaysia and on Java (Indonesia). It lives in the middle and upper reaches of river basins, in rivers, marshlands, ponds and canals in floodplains.

Conservation
IUCN RED LIST : DATA DEFICIENT
CITES : Not Listed
Status : The species has a very disjunct range and is likely a species complex from which every single member is likely threatened because of pollution of water, habitat loss and collection for the trade. Many populations from Java, Indonesia, have been extirpated.
Ex-Situ Programs : None known

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