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Osteoglossum bicirrhosum (Cuvier)

Chan, Jeffery C. F., Tsang, Alphonse H. F., Yau, Sze-man, Hui, Tommy C. H., Lau, Anthony, Tan, Heok Hui, Low, Bi Wei, Dudgeon, David & Liew, Jia Huan, 2023, The non-native freshwater fishes of Hong Kong: diversity, distributions, and origins, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 71, pp. 128-168 : 133

publication ID

 https://doi.org/10.26107/RBZ-2023-0012

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 lsid:zoobank.org:pub:82C3DAD3-0920-4430-A93D-9F887A58DC1A

DOI

 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7815649

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scientific name

 Osteoglossum bicirrhosum (Cuvier)
status

 

Osteoglossum bicirrhosum (Cuvier) View in CoL View at ENA

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Distribution. Ng Tung River, Plover Cove Reservoir (A.C. Lam, pers. comm., 2017); Tsing Yi Park, Tai Tam Reservoir (GBIF.org, 2021); Lai King area, Shing Mun Reservoir (current survey).

Native range. South America.

Remarks. Commonly in the aquarium trade, but breeding has not been reported locally.

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Fig. 2. Osteoglossum bicirrhosum, 215 mm SL, aquarium trade, photographed by Heok Hui Tan.

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