''Leptobarbus'' is a

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cyprinid Cyprinidae is a family of freshwater fish commonly called the carp or minnow family. It includes the carps, the true minnows, and relatives like the barbs and barbels. Cyprinidae is the largest and most diverse fish family and the largest verte ...

fish Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups. Approximately 95% of li ...

that are native to freshwater habitats in

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. They are important

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. It is the only genus in the subfamily Leptobarbinae. Leptobarbus hoevenii or "sultan fish" migrate the fresh water rivers of Malaysia and travel at the surface in schools of 40-80 individuals at speeds of 0.48-1.08 km. Acid-soluble collagen (ASC) and pepsin-soluble collagen (PSC) were extracted from the muscles of selected cultured catfish (hybrid of Clarias gariepinus x Clarias macrocephalus), red tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus), black tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus), pangasius catfish ( Pangasianodon hypopthalmus), sultan fish (Leptobarbus hoevenii) and labyrinth fish (Trichogaster trichopterus), freshwater fishes that are widely consumed in Malaysia. The extracted yields for the tested species were higher for PSC as compared with ASC.Kiew, PL (Kiew, Peck Loo) 1 ; Don, MM (Don, Mashitah Mat) 1 AUG 2013. JOURNAL OF FOOD PROCESS ENGINEERING Volume: 36 Issue: 4 Pages: 428-438

Species

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Leptobarbus hoevenii Hoven's carp (''Leptobarbus hoevenii''; ''Jelawat'' in Malay), also known as the mad barb or sultan fish, is a species of fish in the barb family. It is native to freshwater habitats in the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Borneo and Sumatra. Populations ...

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Bleeker Bleeker is a Dutch occupational surname. Bleeker is an old spelling of ''(linnen)bleker'' ("linen bleacher").Leptobarbus hosii ''Leptobarbus hosii'' is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus ''Leptobarbus'' from freshwater habitats in northern Borneo in southeast Asia. Named in honor of Charles Hose (1863–1929), British colonial administrator in Borneo Borne ...

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Regan The family name Regan, along with its cognates O'Regan, O Regan, Reagan, and O'Reagan, is an Anglicized form of the Irish surname Ó Riagáin or Ó Ríogáin, from Ua Riagáin. The meaning is likely to have originated in ancient Gaelic ''ri'' ...

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Leptobarbus melanopterus ''Leptobarbus melanopterus'' is a species of cyprinid fish in the genus ''Leptobarbus'' from the Kapuas River basin in Borneo Borneo (; id, Kalimantan) is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At the geographic c ...

'' M. C. W. Weber & de Beaufort, 1916 * ''

Leptobarbus melanotaenia ''Leptobarbus melanotaenia'' is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus ''Leptobarbus'' from freshwater habitats in Southeast Asia. References melanotaenia ''Melanotaenia'' is a genus of rainbowfish from Australia, Indonesia (West Pa ...

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Leptobarbus rubripinna ''Leptobarbus rubripinna'', also known as the Sultan barb, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish from the carp and minnow family, Cyprinidae which occurs in south-east Asia. It is a migratory species which moves from the deltas and estuaries ...

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References

Cyprinid fish of Asia Barbs (fish) Cyprinidae genera {{Cyprininae-stub