''Scaphognathops bandanensis'', the common name, "Bandan sharp-mouth barb" is a freshwater fish in

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 ...

family native to the

Mekong 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 wat ...

basin in Indochina. It is characterized by small head is triangular and without barbels.

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''bandanensis'', refers to Amphoe Bandan (now Amphoe Khong Chiam), Ubon Ratchathani Province where the

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was collected. It was studied and described by two Thai fisheries academics, Sithi Boonyaratpalin and Mali Srirungroj. It can attain a maximum length of 25 cm (10 in) but generally about 15 cm (6 in) SL and feeds on small invertebrates, plants, algae including other fish scales. This species is a seasonal migratory fish along the Mekong river and its tributaries from Laos. The migration season begins in January and ends in late April to May each year, along with other species in the group of botiid loach (

Botiidae Botiidae, the pointface loaches, is a family of cypriniform ray-finned fishes from South, Southeast, and East Asia. Until recently they were placed in the true loach family Cobitidae, until Maurice Kottelat revised the loaches and re-elevated t ...

) and mud carp (''

Henicorhynchus ''Henicorhynchus'' is a genus of cyprinid fish that occurs in 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 s ...

''). ''Scaphognathops bandanensis'' has locally commercial use as food and minor in the

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References

bandanensis Cyprinid fish of Asia Fish of Thailand Fish described in 1971 Fish of Laos {{Cyprinidae-stub