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''Kryptopterus minor'' is a small species of Asian glass catfish from the
Kapuas River The Kapuas River (or Kapoeas River) is a river in the Indonesian part of Borneo island, at the geographic center of Maritime Southeast Asia. At in length, it is the longest river in the island of Borneo and the longest river of IndonesiaMacK ...
basin in
Borneo Borneo (; id, Kalimantan) is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, in relation to major Indonesian islands, it is located north of Java, west of Sulawesi, and eas ...
, Indonesia.Ng, H-H. and M. Kottelat (2013). ''After eighty years of misidentification, a name for the glass catfish (Teleostei: Siluridae)'' Zootaxa 3630: 308-316.SeriouslyFish:
Kryptopterus vitreolus.
' Retrieved 18 July 2014.
PlanetCatfish:
Kryptopterus minor.
' Retrieved 18 July 2014.
Until 2013, the
ghost catfish ''Kryptopterus vitreolus'', known in the aquarium trade traditionally as the glass catfishSeriouslyFish: Kryptopterus vitreolus.' Retrieved 18 July 2014. and also as the ghost catfish or phantom catfish, is a small species of Asian glass catfish ...
(''K. vitreolus'') was included in ''K. minor''. The true ''K. minor'' is rarely (if ever) seen in the
aquarium An aquarium (plural: ''aquariums'' or ''aquaria'') is a vivarium of any size having at least one transparent side in which aquatic plants or animals are kept and displayed. Fishkeepers use aquaria to keep fish, invertebrates, amphibians, aq ...
trade, while ''K. vitreolus'' is common.


References

Siluridae Freshwater fish of Indonesia Fish described in 1989 {{Siluriformes-stub