Smallscale Mud Carp

Despite the name, this is not close relative to real sharks and bull sharks. There are carps. From the genus name: Epalzeorhynchos: Greek, epalzes, -es, -es = curative + Greek, rhyngchos = snout. And in specific name from Greek: bi = double, kolor = color.

This carp where it is prized for its deep black body and vivid red or orange tail.

Didn't have to known this animal.

Migration pattern is markedly different above and below the Khone Falls in the Mekong basin. Below the falls, it makes an upstream migration from Phnom Penh to the Khone Falls between November and February, consisting mainly of sub-adults of sizes 10 to 50 cm.

From April to July, it migrates in the opposite direction, from Khone Falls and downstream, constituting mainly of sub-adults up to about 50 cm. Above the Khone Falls, from Klong Kaem District, Ubolratchatani in Thailand, fish migrates upstream in February; at Khemmaratch further upstream in Ubolratchatani, it moves upstream in March-April; and at Mukdahan, it goes upstream in May. However, it migrates downstream at Klong Kaem in June-July. 

Reproductive behavior assumed only. Friendly and passive, but territorial to aquarium fishes.

Recorded from the Chao Phraya and Mekong basins in Thailand, Lao PDR, Cambodia and Viet Nam. The Chao Phraya population has been extirpated over the last 25 years as a result of pollution, dams and overfishing. Inhabits large rivers and lowland floodplains, occurring in riffles and deep slow reaches. Moves out into the flooded forest where it feeds on leafy plant matter, phytoplankton and insects. Highly migratory. The species probably enters flooded floodplain forest in Cambodia.

• Movement Pattern: Random

• Individual Type: Solo

• Population Trend: Decreasing

• Population: ???

• Locomotion: Aquatic

• Habitat:  Warm River; Cold River; Lukewarm River; Subterranean River; Warm Pond; Cold Pond.

• Earth: 

  • Extant (Resident): Cambodia; Laos; Thailand; Vietnam

• Berbania: worldwide

• Reinachos: worldwide

• Delphia: worldwide

The carp can be tamed in a fish basket used for petting and put in your own artificial lake.

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• Vietnamese: Cá trôi vảy nhỏ

• Khmer: Kralang, Kroleng

• Lao: ນ້ຳຈືດ (namchud)

• Thai: ปลานวลจันทร์น้ำจืด (Plā nwlcạnthr̒ n̂ả cụ̄d)

• Estonian: Peenrüü-tsirriin

• Russian: Циррина ильная мелкочешуйчатая (Tsirrina melkocheshuychataya)

• Czech: Остроретка малошупинннá (Ostroretka malošupinnná)

• Danish: Småskællet mudderkarpe

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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallscale_mud_carp

• https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/180904/7654985

• https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q139630

• https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id147366/

• https://www.fishbase.se/summary/Cirrhinus-microlepis.html

• https://www.fishbase.se/ComNames/CommonNamesList.php?ID=27149&GenusName=Cirrhinus&SpeciesName=microlepis&StockCode=21234

• https://www.azquotes.com/author/17912-Ming_Dao_Deng

• http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/TaxBrowser_TaxonPage?taxid=509508

• https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/VGTH

• https://eol.org/pages/582701

• https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1019851

• https://zoobank.org/NomenclaturalActs/59AE0869-EDE1-4346-95B8-9D4683D8A9B7

• https://www.deviantart.com/ognimdo2002/art/Smallscale-Mud-Carp-926154403