Tor Dongnaiensis
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''Tor dongnaiensis'', common name Dongnai manseer, is a species of
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 ...
of the genus ''
Tor Tor, TOR or ToR may refer to: Places * Tor, Pallars, a village in Spain * Tor, former name of Sloviansk, Ukraine, a city * Mount Tor, Tasmania, Australia, an extinct volcano * Tor Bay, Devon, England * Tor River, Western New Guinea, Indonesia Sc ...
''. It inhabits
Vietnam Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making i ...
's Đồng Nai and is considered harmless to humans. It has a maximum length among unsexed males of . Described in 2015, it has been assessed as "near threatened" on the
IUCN Red List The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data Book, founded in 1964, is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of biol ...
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References

*Hoáng, H.D., H.M. Pham, J.-D. Durand, N.T. Trȧn and P.Đ. Phan, 2015. Mahseers genera Tor and Neolissochilus (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from southern Vietnam. Zootaxa 4006(3):551-568. Cyprinid fish of Asia Fish of Vietnam Fish described in 2015 IUCN Red List near threatened species {{Cyprinidae-stub