Balantiocheilos ambusticauda

SPECIES

1. KingdomAnimalia
2. PhylumChordata
3. ClassTeleostei
4. OrderCypriniformes
5. FamilyCyprinidae

Habitatfreshwater

(Fig. 1a) Balantiocheilos melanopterus (non Bleeker) Bleeker, 1865a: 35; 1865b: 176; Sauvage, 1881: 164; Tirant, 1885: [p. 161 of 1929 reprint]); Hora, 1923: 159; Chevey, 1932: 14; Fowler, 1937: 200, Figs. 185-186; Smith, 1945: 206; Taki, 1968: 10; Kottelat, 1985: 260; Rainboth, 1996: 86; Baird et al, 1999: 25; Kottelat, 2001: 38 (not figure [a cultivated specimen]). Diagnosis. Balantiocheilos ambusticauda is distinguished from its sole congener, B. melanopterus (Fig. 1b), in having a shorter snout (27.5-33.9% HL vs. 33.2-39.1) that is rounded (vs. obliquely truncate) in specimens larger than ca. 80 mm SL (Fig. 2), posteriorly directed groove at rictus curved (vs. straight; Fig. 3), and narrower black margins on the pelvic and anal fins (on distal third of both fins or less vs. on distal half or more, with pelvic fins sometimes entirely black). Description. Morphometric data are given in Table 1. Body moderately slender and strongly compressed; scales in transverse lines ½5/1/4½ (1) or ½6/1/4½ (8). Predorsal profile gently sloping dorsally, then sloping gently ventrally from origin of dorsal fin to end of caudal peduncle; predorsal scales 11 (6) or 12 (3). Ventral profile less conv

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