''Barbatula compressirostris'' is a

species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

ray-finned fish Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fish or actinopterygians, is a class of bony fish that comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species. They are so called because of their lightly built fins made of webbings of sk ...

in the

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Barbatula ''Barbatula'' is a genus of fish in the family (biology), family Nemacheilidae native to Europe and Asia.Kottelat, M. (2012)Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). ''Raffles Bulletin ...

''. It is native to the

Khovd River Khovd River (, ) is a river in western Mongolia. It flows from Tavan Bogd mountain of the Altai Mountains in Bayan-Ölgii Province to Khar-Us Lake. The length of the river is 516 kilometres. See also *List of rivers of Mongolia This is a ...

drainage in Mongolia, and possibly Russia.

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compressirostris Fish described in 1897 {{Nemacheilidae-stub