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Luciosoma spilopleura Bleeker, 1855

Apollo sharkminnow
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Common names: [No common name]
Occurrence: native
Salinity: freshwater
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Known from Lahat, upper Musi river in Sumatra and from Kapuas in western Borneo (Ref. 2091). Collected from Semitau at night around floating houses and from Silat in the Kapuas mainriver among flooded grasses (Ref. 56749). Museum: Lahat, BMNH 1866.5.2.97, holotype (Ref. 2091). Also Ref. 26580.
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Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Kottelat, M., A.J. Whitten, S.N. Kartikasari and S. Wirjoatmodjo, 1993
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Common names from other countries

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

Teleostei (teleosts) > Cypriniformes (Carps) > Danionidae (Danios) > Chedrinae
Etymology: Luciosoma: Latin, lucius, Greek, lykos = wolf = pike, by its predatory habits + Greek, soma = body (Ref. 45335).
  More on author: Bleeker.

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

Freshwater; benthopelagic; pH range: 6.5 - ? ; dH range: 5 - 8.   Tropical; 24°C - 27°C (Ref. 2059)

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