The Indonesian featherback (''Chitala borneensis'') is a species of knifefish from freshwater habitats in Southeast Asia. The details of its range are not entirely clear, with

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reporting that it occurs in

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, and the

Malay Peninsula The Malay Peninsula (Malay: ''Semenanjung Tanah Melayu'') is a peninsula in Mainland Southeast Asia. The landmass runs approximately north–south, and at its terminus, it is the southernmost point of the Asian continental mainland. The area ...

, while

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considers it

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to Borneo. There has been considerable

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confusion between this species and '' C. lopis''; it was argued as recent as 1992 that the two are variants of a single species, but later authorities have recognized them as separate.Kottelat, M., and Lim, K.K.P. (1995). Freshwater fishes of Sarawak and Brunei Darussalam: a preliminary annotated check-list. The Sarawak Museum Journal (New Series) v. 48 (no. 69): 227-256.Parenti, L.R., and Downing Meisner, A.L. (2003). Fishes of the Belait River. Brunei Museum Journal 10: 17–54. ''C. borneensis'' reaches at least in

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.Parenti, L.R., and Lim. K.K.P. (2005). Fishes of the Rajang Basin, Sarawak, Malaysia. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Supplement 13: 175-208. It is overall pale silvery-golden with many small black spots on the tail fin,

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and lower rear part of the body, and a black spot behind the

pectoral fin Fins are distinctive anatomical features composed of bony spines or rays protruding from the body of a fish. They are covered with skin and joined together either in a webbed fashion, as seen in most bony fish, or similar to a flipper, as ...

References

Notopteridae Fish of Southeast Asia Fish described in 1851 {{Osteoglossiformes-stub