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<i>Lepidocephalichthys guntea</i>

Lepidocephalichthys guntea

Species of fish

Lepidocephalichthys guntea, also known as guntea loach, scavenger loach or peppered loach,[2] is a species of cobitid loach native to southern and south-eastern Asia. This species reaches a length of 15 centimetres (5.9 in) TL. It uses its intestines to breathe, which gives it the ability to adapt to live in a variety of stagnant and flowing environments.[3] This fish is found in the aquarium trade.[2]

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References

  1. [1]
    Kottelat, Maurice (December 2012). "Conspectus Cobitidum: An Inventory of the Loaches of the World (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei)". The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology: 1–199. Supplement No. 26. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
  2. [2]
    Mark in Vancouver (6 January 2007). "Lepidocephalichthys guntea". Loaches Online Community Edition. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
  3. [3]
    Roy, Rudra Prasad; Saha, Tilak; Chakraborty, Ranadhir (2018). "Contrasting observation in culturable aerobic and micro-aerophilic heterotrophic fish gut-bacteria: intestine-breathing Lepidocephalichthys guntea (Hamilton Buchannan) versus gill-breathing Labeo rohita". Current Science. 115 (3): 548–552. doi:10.18520/cs/v115/i3/548-552. JSTOR 26978243.

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