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Henicorhynchus siamensis (Siamese mud carp)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The Siamese mud carp (Henicorhynchus siamensis) is a species of freshwater cyprinid fish, a variety of Asian carp native to the Mekong and Chao Phraya Rivers in Southeast Asia, especially in Cambodia, Laos and Thailand. It is very present in floodplains during the wet season and migrates upstream in the Mekong starting in Cambodia. The Siamese mud carp has locally commercial use both as food and in the aquarium trade. Local names: \n* Thai: Pla soi khao (ปลาสร้อยขาว, pronounced [plāː sɔ̂j kʰǎːw]) \n* Laotian: ປາຊວຍ [paː swáːj] \n* Khmer: ~ Trey riel tob \n* Vietnamese: Cá linh thùy.
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Migration [1]  Potamodromous

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1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0