''Rasbosoma'' is a genus of
cyprinid
Cyprinidae is a Family (biology), family of freshwater fish commonly called the carp or minnow family, including the carps, the true minnows, and their relatives the barb (fish), barbs and barbel (fish), barbels, among others. Cyprinidae is the ...
fish found in the
Mekong Basin
The Mekong or Mekong River ( , ) is a transboundary river in East Asia and Southeast Asia. It is the world's twelfth-longest river and the third-longest in Asia with an estimated length of and a drainage area of , discharging of water ...
of
Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia is the geographical United Nations geoscheme for Asia#South-eastern Asia, southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Mainland Au ...
(Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand). The genus contains only one species, the dwarf scissortail rasbora or ''Rasbosoma spilocerca''. They are small fish with maximum size
SL.
References
Fish of Thailand
Rasborinae
Fish of the Mekong Basin
Fish of Cambodia
Fish of Laos
Fish described in 1987
Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN
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