Leptobarbus hosii

Leptobarbus hosii is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Leptobarbus from freshwater habitats in northern Borneo in southeast Asia.

Leptobarbus hosii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Leptobarbinae
Genus: Leptobarbus
Species:
L. hosii
Binomial name
Leptobarbus hosii
(Regan, 1906)
Disitribution of Leptobarbus hosii
Synonyms
  • Barbus hosii Regan, 1906

Named in honor of Charles Hose (1863-1929), British colonial administrator in Borneo, zoologist and ethnologist, who collected the type specimen.[2]


References

  1. 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.
  2. 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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