Hypsibarbus lagleri Rainboth, 1996
Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.
Open encyclopedia reference
Hypsibarbus lagleri is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Hypsibarbus which is endemic to the middle Mekong basin in Cambodia, Laos and Thailand. It is fished for as a food fish and marketed fresh. Hypsibarbus lagleri has 8 soft rays I its dorsal fin and 5 in its anal fin. It has a very compressed body with an upper transverse scale count of 6. The fins are colourless. It has a gill raker count of 9–10 on the lower arm of first gill arch and there are 5 horizontal scale rows between the lateral line and the mid-dorsal scale row at the origin of the dorsal-fin. It can grow to up to 40 cm in length. This species can be found in large rivers during the dry season and migrates into medium-sized rivers during the monsoon. It prefers clear water where it occurs in the midwater to bottom depths. This species possibly moves into flooded forest habitats immediately adjacent to rivers, but it avoids substrates consisting of fine-grained sediments, preferring rocky substrates instead.
Wikipedia contributors, Hypsibarbus lagleri; see linked history · CC BY-SA 4.0 . Plain-text lead excerpt, at most 180 words; no infobox or later sections Retrieved 2026-10-05T22:53:25.807567+00:00. This reference remains separate from the taxonomic record.
Identity & source status
- Scientific name
- Hypsibarbus lagleri Rainboth, 1996
- Name authority
- Rainboth, 1996
- Rank
- species
- Accepted status
- accepted
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Cypriniformes
- Family
- Cyprinidae
- Genus
- Hypsibarbus
- Extinction status
- Not supplied by this source
Source habitat flags: Marine: no · Freshwater: yes · Terrestrial: no. These do not form a complete habitat description.
Classification family tree
Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.
- domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- subphylumVertebrata
- infraphylumGnathostomata
- parvphylumOsteichthyes
- gigaclassActinopterygii
- superclassActinopteri
- classTeleostei
- orderCypriniformes
- familyCyprinidae Rafinesque, 1815
- genusHypsibarbus Rainboth, 1996
- speciesHypsibarbus lagleri Rainboth, 1996
Close classified relatives
These entries share the source’s genus, Hypsibarbus. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Hypsibarbus annamensis (Pellegrin & Chevey, 1936) | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hypsibarbus macrosquamatus (Mai, 1978) | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hypsibarbus malcolmi (Smith, 1945) | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hypsibarbus myitkyinae (Prashad & Mukerji, 1929) | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hypsibarbus oatesii (Boulenger, 1893) | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hypsibarbus vernayi (Norman, 1925) | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hypsibarbus salweenensis Rainboth, 1996 | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hypsibarbus suvattii Rainboth, 1996 | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
Source literature & publication evidence
References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.
- Rainboth, W. J. (1996). The taxonomy, systematics, and zoogeography of Hypsibarbus, a new genus of large barbs (Pisces, Cyprinidae) from the rivers of southeastern Asia. University of California Publications in Zoology v. 129: i-xiii + 1-199. Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references
Origins, evidence & remaining research
Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.
Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record. A suitable sourced image remains to be added.
Dataset citation & attribution
This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11
Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.
Stable key: col:3P3G4. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.