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Malayochela maassi
Sign in to saveMalayochela is a monospecific genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Danionidae, the danios or danionins. The only species in the genus is Malayochela maassi, a fish found in Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Kalimantan
Species
Least ConcernSPECIES
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderCypriniformes
- FamilyCyprinidae
via GBIF · IUCN
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 9
- With media
- 8
- Family
- Cyprinidae
- Collections
- CAS, ROM, UF, NRM
- Recorded in
- Indonesia, Malaysia
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Encyclopedic overview
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Malayochela is a monospecific genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Danionidae, the danios or danionins. The only species in the genus is Malayochela maassi, a fish found in Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Kalimantan
==Etymology== The fish is named in honor of German anthropologist Alfred Maass (1889–1936), who led an expedition to Sumatra, during which the holotype specimen was collected.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Malayochela maassi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.