Lepidocephalichthys guntea
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cobitidae |
| Genus: | Lepidocephalichthys |
| Species: | L. guntea
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| Lepidocephalichthys guntea (F. Hamilton, 1822)
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Nemacheilus guttatus (McClelland, 1839) | |
Lepidocephalichthys guntea, the Guntea loach, is a species of cobitid loach native to southern and southeastern Asia. This species reaches a length of 15 centimetres (5.9 in) TL. It uses its intestines to breath, which gives it the ability to adapt to live in a variety of stagnant and flowing environments.[2] This fish is found in the aquarium trade.
Footnotes
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2006). "Lepidocephalichthys guntea" in FishBase. April 2006 version.
- ^ Kottelat, M. (2012): Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). Archived 2013-02-11 at the Wayback Machine The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. No. 26: 1-199.
- ^ Roy, Rudra (2018). "Contrasting observation in culturable aerobic and micro-aerophilic heterotrophic fish gut-bacteria: intestine-breathing Lepidocephalichthys guntea (Hamilton Buchannan) versus gill-breathing Labeo rohita" (PDF). Current Science: 548. doi:10.18520/cs/v115/i3/548-552. Retrieved 6 March 2020.