River

Banghiang

One profile names the Banghiang. That is what has been written, not what lives there.

Species: 1
Families: 1
Photographed: 1 of 1
Difficulty rated: 1 of 1

Basin

Mekong basin

Also in the Mekong basin

That fish is also recorded from

Champhon

Runs through

Laos

Wild individual collected near Siam Reap, northwestern Cambodia.

Brachygobius mekongensisMekong Bumblebee Goby

Gobiidae · Larson & Vidthayanon, 2000

18mm SL0.7in SL

45 × 30cm18 × 12in

22–28°C72–82°F

Apparently restricted to slow-moving or standing freshwater habitats such as marshes, temporal swamps and floodplains where aquatic vegetation and submerged grasses proliferate. One locality consisted of undisturbed marshland with lightly tannin-stained water and dense growth of Vallisneria spp.