River

Jialing

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

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

Basin

Yangtze basin

Also in the Yangtze basin

Min

That fish is also recorded from

Yangtze

Runs through

China

The 'standard' colour phase of this species.

Leptobotia microphthalma

Botiidae · Fu & Ye, 1983

120 × 45cm48 × 18in

15.5–21°C60–70°F

Superficially similar to L. tientainensis but according to the formal description can be separated by a combination of characters including: more deeply-forked caudal-fin (shortest central rays fit 2.6-2.9 times in the outer rays vs. 1.7-2.5 times); significantly smaller eye (fits 26 times in head length vs. 10 times); caudal-fin with 1-2 dark bands at lateral edges v...