Puntius stoliczkanus
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 Puntius stoliczkanus
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| Puntius stoliczkanus (Day, 1871) |
The tic-tac-toe barb (Puntius stoliczkanus) is a freshwater tropical fish belonging to the minnow family (Cyprinidae). It is a native of the upper Mekong, Salwen, Irrawaddy, Meklong and upper Charo Phraya basins in the countries of Nepal, India, Pakistan, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Laos, Thailand, and Sri Lanka.
Puntius stoliczkanus is (describe base color) with a vertically elongated black blotch behind the gill opening, and a vertically elongated black blotch on the caudal peduncle. The dorsal fin of a sexually active male is red with a black margin and two rows of black spots. It has no barbels and the last simple dorsal ray is serrated posteriorly. It grows to a maximum length of 2 inches (5 centimeters).
Puntius stoliczkanus is of commercial importance in the fish keeping industry and is used to create hybrid variants of tiger barbs and other barbs.
This fish is one of many barbs undergoing revisions in their taxonomic classification. This species has also been referred to as Barbus stoliczkanus, and is frequently confused with Puntius ticto, also known as the ticto barb or the two spot barb, a subtropical freshwater or brackish fish inhabiting the same geographic region.
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- "Puntius stoliczkanus". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. February 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.
