''Scaphognathops stejnegeri'' is a species 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 of the genus ''

Scaphognathops ''Scaphognathops'' is a genus of cyprinid fishes found in Southeast Asia. Thai vernacular names are ''pla pak pian'' (), ''pla pian'' (ปลาเปี่ยน) or ''pla ta dam'' (ปลาตาดำ). It is restricted to Mekong Th ...

''. It inhabits inland wetlands in

Cambodia Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country in Southeast Asia on the Mainland Southeast Asia, Indochinese Peninsula. It is bordered by Thailand to the northwest, Laos to the north, and Vietnam to the east, and has a coastline ...

Laos Laos, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic (LPDR), is the only landlocked country in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by Myanmar and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the southeast, and Thailand to the west and ...

and

Thailand Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Mainland Southeast Asia, Indochinese Peninsula. With a population of almost 66 million, it spa ...

, and is used for food locally. It has been assessed as "least concern" on the

IUCN Red List The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data Book, founded in 1964, is an inventory of the global conservation status and extinction risk of biological ...

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stejnegeri Cyprinid fish of Asia Fish of Cambodia Fish of Laos Fish of Thailand IUCN Red List least concern species Fish described in 1931 Taxa named by Hugh McCormick Smith {{Cyprinidae-stub