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Akysis vespa Ng & Kottelat, 2004

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Myanmar country information

Common names: [No common name]
Occurrence: native
Salinity: freshwater
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Presently found only in headwaters (the Megathat Chaung) of the Ataran River drainage, a river draining northwestwards into the Gulf of Martaban situated at the northern end of the Taninthayin Range (Ref. 55399).
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Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/bm.html
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Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Ng, H.H. and M. Kottelat, 2004
National Database:

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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes(genus, species) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

Teleostei (teleosts) > Siluriformes (Catfishes) > Akysidae (Stream catfishes) > Akysinae
Etymology: Akysis: Derived from Greek, a = without + Greek, kysthos = bladder (Ref. 45335);  vespa: Derived from the Latin vespa, meaning wasp, in reference to the yellow-orange and brown striped pattern of this pecies and also in allusion to the painful sting its spines may inflict..
  More on authors: Ng & Kottelat.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Freshwater; demersal.   Tropical

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