Gobiobotiahomalopteroidea Rendahl

The Latin scientific name of the flat-finned loach is Gobiobotiahomalopteroidea Rendahl, and its foreign name is eight-whiskergudgeon. It belongs to the genus Gobiobotiahomalopteroidea of the family Cyprinidae and is endemic to my country.

The flat-finned loach has high requirements for living conditions, and slight interference from external factors, such as soil erosion, increased sediment content and other changes in the water niche, will have a greater impact on its survival. Coupled with the harm caused by harmful fishing methods, the population size has been significantly reduced.

Listed in the "Red Data Book of Endangered Animals in China - Fishes", the endangerment level is: Endangered.

It is included in the "Red List of Chinese Species" and the endangered level is: Endangered (EN).

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The flat-fin loach is a species endemic to my country, only distributed in the main and tributary rivers of the Yellow River from Lanzhou to Longzhong in Gansu Province. It is rare and is an occasional species.
It lives in flowing water with a lot of sand and gravel on the bottom. It moves in the lower layer of the water body and often crawls on the bottom of the water to live a benthic life.

The body is long and cylindrical, the rear part is slightly flattened laterally, and the tail stalk is slender. The back of the head has small cortical ridges. The muzzle gradually becomes flattened forward, and the length of the muzzle is slightly shorter than the length of the head behind the eyes. The mouth is large, inferior, and broadly arcuate. The lips are thin, the upper lip has papillary folds, and the lower lip is smooth. The eyes are small and positioned upward. The distance between the eyes is significantly larger than the eye diameter. There are 4 pairs of whiskers, 1 pair of mouth whiskers and 3 pairs of chin whiskers, slightly longer. The ends of the oral barbels reach vertically below the posterior edge of the eye; the third pair of mental barbels is the longest and ends close to the origin of the pectoral fins. There are small papillae between the bases of each beard on the chin. The scales are round and slightly smaller. Complete lateral lines. There are 41-42 lateral