The Siamese mud carp (''Henicorhynchus siamensis'') is a species of
freshwater 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 ver ...
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 ...
, a variety of
Asian carp native to the
Mekong
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and
Chao Phraya Rivers in
Southeast Asia
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, especially in
Cambodia
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,
Laos and
Thailand
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.
It is very common in floodplains during the wet season and migrates upstream in the Mekong starting in Cambodia.
The Siamese mud carp has locally commercial use both as food and in the aquarium trade.
Local names:
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Thai: ''pla soi khao'' (, )
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Laotian: ປາຊວຍ
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Khmer: ''trey riel tob'' ()
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Vietnamese
Vietnamese may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to Vietnam, a country in Southeast Asia
** A citizen of Vietnam. See Demographics of Vietnam.
* Vietnamese people, or Kinh people, a Southeast Asian ethnic group native to Vietnam
** Overse ...
: ''Cá linh thùy'' .
References
Carp
Fish of the Mekong Basin
Fish of Cambodia
Fish of Laos
Fish of Thailand
Fish of Vietnam
Fish described in 1881
Henicorhynchus
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