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Adrianichthys kruyti

(Duck-bill Poso minnow)

Overview

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Family : Ricefishes ;

Critically Endangered

Threat status

Interesting Facts

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Common Names

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Common Names in English:

Duck-bill Poso minnow, Duck-billed Buntingi, Duckbill Sleeper, Duckbilled buntingi

Common Names in Finnish:

Nokkamedaka

Common Names in German:

Entenschnabelk, Entenschnabelkärpfling

Common Names in Mandarin Chinese:

怪頜鮰, 怪颌鮰

Description

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Physical Description

Species Adrianichthys kruyti

Males are commonly 11 cm (Standard Length) in length when caught/marketed, but may be as large as 16 cm (Total Length).

Habitat

Biome: Freshwater [1].

Ecology: List of Habitats :

Taxonomy

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Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

First described: Weber, M. and L.F. de Beaufort The fishes of the Indo-Australian Archipelago . II.- Malacopterygii, Myctophoidea, Ostariophysi : I.- Siluroidea. E.J. Brill, Leiden. 404 p., 1913.

Last scrutiny: Data last modified by FishBase 15-Aug-1994

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Adrianichthys

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 2 species and subspecies in this genus:

A. kruyti (Duck-Bill Poso Minnow) · A. roseni (Rosen's Buntingi)

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Further Reading

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Notes

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Contributors

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 06, 2007:

Identifiers

Footnotes

  1. Kottelat, M. 1996. Adrianichthys kruyti. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 30 January 2012. [back]
Last Revised: 2012-07-14