Genus

Abbottina

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Where the name comes fromEdit

named for American businessman, politician, and philanthropist Abbott Lawrence (1792–1855).

Male individual from the U.S. aquarium trade.

Abbottina rivularisChinese False Gudgeon

Basilewsky, 1855

The Chinese false gudgeon, Abbottina rivularis, is a small bottom-dwelling cyprinid native to China, the Korean peninsula and southern Japan. It has been widely introduced elsewhere, including the Mekong and Salween basins, Taiwan, Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan, and is considered invasive. It has started to appear in the aquarium trade and should never be released into natural waters outside its native range.

Moderate