Leptobarbus hosii
Leptobarbus hosii is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Leptobarbus from freshwater habitats in northern Borneo in southeast Asia.
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Subfamily: | Leptobarbinae |
| Genus: | Leptobarbus |
| Species: | L. hosii |
| Binomial name | |
| Leptobarbus hosii (Regan, 1906) | |
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Named in honor of Charles Hose (1863-1929), British colonial administrator in Borneo, zoologist and ethnologist, who collected the type specimen.[2]
References
- Jenkins, A.; Kullander, F.F.; Tan, H.H. (2009). "Leptobarbus hosii". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2009: e.T169517A6641330. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009-2.RLTS.T169517A6641330.en.
- Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CYPRINIFORMES: Families LEPTOBARBIDAE, XENOCYPRIDIDAE and TINCIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 8 March 2021.
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