Animal Profile IUCN: LC

Gagata dolichonema

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Scientific Name Gagata dolichonema

Length Up to 13 cm

Weight No verification information

Lifespan It lives in the middle waters of large rivers, and its living habits are unknown.

IUCN Status LC

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Listed in "List of China’s National Key Protected Wild Animals》Level 2.

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Profile Details

Key characteristics, appearance, and habitat information.

Traits & Behavior

The body is long and flat, with narrow dorsal side and wide and flat head and trunk ventrally. The head is flattened laterally and the bone ridges are covered with thin skin.

Appearance

Snout blunt, longer than eye diameter. Eyes large. Short barbels between nostrils; maxillary barbels reach pectoral fin base and inner edge is membrane-lined. Four chin barbels in a horizontal row behind lips. Gill openings reach ventral side of head. Gill membranes connected to gill septa. Mouth transversely fissured, inferior. Teeth velvety, palatine bone toothless. Lips with spurs. Anterior segment of lateral line high. Body scaleless. Dorsal fin rays 1-6, longer than head; adipose fin; anal fin rays Ⅲ-10; pectoral fin rays 1-9, low; pelvic fins 1-5; caudal fin forked. Anterior chamber of swim bladder is divided into left and right chambers. Body dark yellow-gray, caudal fin pale folded, other fins tip black.

Distribution & Habitat

It is a small fish that lives at the bottom of mountain streams in the southern foothills of the Himalayas and the western Hengduan Mountains.
In China, it is distributed in the Lancang River basin in Yunnan and other places.

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