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Quintabarbates

Quintabarbates is a monospecific genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Cobitidae, the true or spiny loaches. The only species in the genus is Quintabarbates bicolor which was first formally described in 2022 by the American ichthyologist Tyson R. Roberts. This taxon is only known from a tributary of the Chindwin River in the Irrawaddy River in Myanmar. The genus name, Quintabarbates, means "five beards", and is a reference to the five pairs of...

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1313005.