Lepidocephalichthys guntea

Guntea loach
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Cobitidae
Genus:	Lepidocephalichthys
Species:	L. guntea
Binomial name
	Lepidocephalichthys guntea; (F. Hamilton, 1822)
Synonyms
	List Cobitis balgara Hamilton, 1822; Cobitis Maya Sykes, 1839; Canthophrys vittatus Swainson, 1839; Canthophrys olivaceus Swainson, 1839; Cobitis phoxocheila M'Clelland, 1839; Misgurnus lateralis Günther, 1868; Lepidocephalus dibruensis Sen, 1979; Lepidocephalichthys nepalensis Shrestha, 1981;

Lepidocephalichthys guntea, also known as guntea loach, scavenger loach or peppered loach,^[2] is a species of cobitid loach native to southern and south-eastern Asia. This species reaches a length of 15 centimetres (5.9 in) TL. It uses its intestines to breathe, which gives it the ability to adapt to live in a variety of stagnant and flowing environments.^[3] This fish is found in the aquarium trade.^[2]

References

^ Kottelat, Maurice (December 2012). "Conspectus Cobitidum: An Inventory of the Loaches of the World (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei)". The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology: 1–199. Supplement No. 26. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
^ ^a ^b Mark in Vancouver (6 January 2007). "Lepidocephalichthys guntea". Loaches Online Community Edition. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
^ Roy, Rudra Prasad; Saha, Tilak; Chakraborty, Ranadhir (2018). "Contrasting observation in culturable aerobic and micro-aerophilic heterotrophic fish gut-bacteria: intestine-breathing Lepidocephalichthys guntea (Hamilton Buchannan) versus gill-breathing Labeo rohita". Current Science. 115 (3): 548–552. doi:10.18520/cs/v115/i3/548-552. JSTOR 26978243.

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