Oxygaster pointoni

Oxygaster pointoni is a freshwater ray-finned fish of the family Cyprinidae from the rivers of Indochina.

Oxygaster pointoni
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Superfamily: Cyprinoidea
Family: Cyprinidae
Genus: Oxygaster
Species:
O. pointoni
Binomial name
Oxygaster pointoni
(Fowler, 1934)
Synonyms
  • Chela pointoni Fowler, 1934

Habitat and diet

Oxygaster pointoni is a pelagic species which can be found near the surface of medium-sized rivers.[1] It probably has a similar diet to Oxygaster anomalura consisting of chironomids and small molluscs.[2]

Distribution

Oxygaster pointoniis found in the Chao Phraya River and Mekong River in Thailand, Cambodia and Laos.[1]

Human use and threats

O. pointoni is not normally encountered in fish markets and this means that it may be exploited at only by at a subsistence fishermen. It is unknown in aquaculture, so any fish harvested will be wild. It is threatened by the pollution and damming of the rivers it inhabits and the population of this fish has thought to have declined by 30% in the ten years up to 2009, which is why the IUCN classified it as "Vulnerable".[1]

References
  1. Jenkins, A., Kullander, F.F. & Tan, H.H. (2009). "Oxygaster pointoni". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: 2009: e.T169521A6641848. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009-2.RLTS.T169521A6641848.en.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  2. Rainer Froses; Daniel Pauly, eds. (2017). "Oxygaser pointoni (Fowler, 1934)". Fishbase. Retrieved 18 September 2017.


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