Hemibarbus mylodon
Formerly Barbus mylodon Berg, 1907 · Belligobio eristigma Jordan & Hubbs, 1925
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Quick facts
Difficulty3 of 8 measures
More bars, more demanding. Hardiness is not averaged with the rest.
- Space
- very large tank
- Water
- unknown
- Temp
- unknown
- Diet
- unknown
- Temperament
- unknown
- Social
- shoal
- Compatibility
- community tank
Hardiness on its own can raise the rating, whatever the measures above say.
- Hardiness
- unknown
Endemic to the Korean peninsula where it occurs throughout North Korea and South Korea. Type locality is 'Keumsan River, near Pusan, South Korea.'
Etymology
Hemibarbus: from the Ancient Greek ἡμι- (hēmi-), meaning 'half', and the generic name Barbus, to which members appear similar.
mylodon: from the Ancient Greek, meaning 'grinder', and ὀδών (odṓn), meaning ‘toothed', in allusion to the large fourth pharyngeal tooth, which is molariform with a small, round excavation on the upper surface.
Distribution
Endemic to the Korean peninsula where it occurs throughout North Korea and South Korea.
Type locality is 'Keumsan River, near Pusan, South Korea.'
Habitat
Diet
Wild fish feed primarily on benthic macroinvertebrates.
References
- Berg, L. S. (1907). Review of the freshwater fishes of Korea. Zoologicheskogo Muzeya Imperatorskoj Akademii Nauk v. 12, 1-12
- Jang, M.-H., M. C. Lucas and G.-J. Joo (2003). The fish fauna of mountain streams in South Korean national parks and its significance to conservation of regional freshwater fish biodiversity. Biological Conservation 114, 115-126
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