Barbucca heokhuii

Barbucca heokhuii Kottelat, 2025

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Teleostei (teleosts) > Cypriniformes (Carps) > Barbuccidae (Fire-eyed loaches)
Etymology: Barbucca: Latin barba,-ae = beard + Latin, bucca = mouth (Ref. 45335); heokhuii: Name 'heokhuii in honor of Tan Heok Hui (LKCNHM) in honor of his work on Southeast Asian fishes, and especially fishes of peat swamp forests and loaches of Borneo, and for the long lasting friendship, collaboration and companionship in the field.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Freshwater; benthopelagic. Tropical

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Asia: Indonesia.

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 2.2 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 137977)

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Dorsal soft rays (total): 11 - 12; Anal soft rays: 7. This species is distinguished from its congeners by the following set of characters: adult size 21.5 mm SL; body depth at dorsal-fin origin 17-21 % SL; a truncate to rounded caudal fin; the lateral line incomplete, reaching to below posterior half of dorsal fin; large tubercles on head and body absent; anus about halfway between pelvic-fin base and anal-fin origin; colour pattern made of five pairs of irregular bars on the flank, narrower than interspaces, of which the anterior one or two pairs may be dissociated into several small blotches; the posterior 3 pairs meet their contralaterals on the back; the anterior two pairs end dorsally into two conspicuous blotches not meeting their contralaterals; dorsal fin with two blackish longitudinal stripes; and the caudal fin hyaline (Ref. 137977).
Body shape (shape guide): elongated; Cross section: oval.

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

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Kottelat, M., 2025. Barbucca heokhuii, a new species of loach from central Borneo (Teleostei: Barbuccidae). Raffles Bull. Zool. 73:54-66. (Ref. 137977)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2)

Not Evaluated 

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





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Fisheries: of no interest
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