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Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes) > Cypriniformes (Carps) > Cyprinidae (Minnows or carps) > Alburninae

Issue
Misspelled lineatus in Eschmeyer (CofF ver. Jul. 2010: Ref. 84883).

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Freshwater; benthopelagic. Subtropical, preferred ?

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Asia: Viet Nam, China and Taiwan. Introduced in other basins in China and spread to northern Laos.

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 10.0 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 43281)

Short description Morphology | Morphometrics

Dorsal spines (total): 2; Dorsal soft rays (total): 7; Anal spines: 3; Anal soft rays: 14 - 18. Body covered by middle sized round scale. Short dorsal fin, starts from the end point of pelvic fin. Black gray in the back, silver white in the stomach. Black spots in the base of each scale, forming several gray strips vertically (Ref. 33303). Keel on belly between pelvic fin origin and anal fin origin; several faint longitudinal stripes along scale rows (Ref. 43281).

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Kottelat, M., 2001. Freshwater fishes of northern Vietnam. A preliminary check-list of the fishes known or expected to occur in northern Vietnam with comments on systematics and nomenclature. Environment and Social Development Unit, East Asia and Pacific Region. The World Bank. 123 p. (Ref. 44416)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 115185)

Least Concern (LC)

CITES (Ref. 94142)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

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Metzia lineata (Pellegrin, 1907)