''Abbottina rivularis'' (Chinese false gudgeon or Amur false gudgeon) is a species of

ray-finned fish Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fishes, is a class of bony fish. They comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species. The ray-finned fishes are so called because their fins are webs of skin supported by bony or h ...

in the family Cyprinidae, the carps and minnows. It is native to China,

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, and Japan. It has been introduced to the Mekong River Basin and it is also known from rivers in

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.Froese, R. and D. Pauly. (Eds.
''Abbottina rivularis''.
FishBase. 2011.

Description

This species is mature at about 4 or 5 centimeters in length, and the maximum recorded length was 18.9 centimeters. It has eight dark spots along its lateral line and many black dots on its caudal fin.

Distribution and Habitat

This

freshwater fish Freshwater fish are those that spend some or all of their lives in fresh water, such as rivers and lakes, with a salinity of less than 1.05%. These environments differ from marine conditions in many ways, especially the difference in levels of ...

lives in rivers and lakes, and it is often found in converted lowland aquatic habitat, such as

irrigation Irrigation (also referred to as watering) is the practice of applying controlled amounts of water to land to help grow crops, landscape plants, and lawns. Irrigation has been a key aspect of agriculture for over 5,000 years and has been devel ...

ditches and ponds associated with

rice paddies A paddy field is a flooded field of arable land used for growing semiaquatic crops, most notably rice and taro. It originates from the Neolithic rice-farming cultures of the Yangtze River basin in southern China, associated with pre-Au ...

Biology

This fish is host to a number of recorded

parasites Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life. The entomologist E. O. Wilson ha ...

, including the

monogenea Monogeneans are a group of ectoparasitic flatworms commonly found on the skin, gills, or fins of fish. They have a direct lifecycle and do not require an intermediate host. Adults are hermaphrodites, meaning they have both male and female repro ...

n flatworms '' Gyrodactylus rivularae'' and '' G. gobioninum'', several

trematode Trematoda is a class of flatworms known as flukes. They are obligate internal parasites with a complex life cycle requiring at least two hosts. The intermediate host, in which asexual reproduction occurs, is usually a snail. The definitive h ...

flatworms of the genus '' Diplostomum'', and the

tapeworm Eucestoda, commonly referred to as tapeworms, is the larger of the two subclasses of flatworms in the class Cestoda (the other subclass is Cestodaria). Larvae have six posterior hooks on the scolex (head), in contrast to the ten-hooked Cesto ...

'' Khawia abbottinae''.Xi, B. W., et al. (2013)
''Khawia abbottinae'' sp. n.(Cestoda: Caryophyllidea) from the Chinese false gudgeon ''Abbottina rivularis'' (Cyprinidae: Gobioninae) in China: morphological and molecular data.
''Folia Parasitologica'' 60(2), 141-48.

Description

Distribution and Habitat

Biology

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