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Hemisilurus mekongensis

species of fish

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ5647710 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hemisilurus mekongensis is a species of sheatfish first described by Bornbusch and Lundberg in 1989. Hemisilurus mekongensis is part of the genus Hemisilurus and the family Siluridae.

Editorial summary

“Hemisilurus mekongensis” enters the record as species of fish. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Hemisilurus, mekongensis and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1989—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Hemisilurus, mekongensis and species.
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“Hemisilurus mekongensis” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Hemisilurus, mekongensis and species provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5647710. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1989.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hemisilurus mekongensis” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.