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Pocket-like lip barbel

species of fish

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ9055522 ↗
Source-derived summary

The pocket-like lip barbel (Paraspinibarbus macracanthus) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish from the carp and minnow family, the Cyprinidae. It occurs in the Nam Xam and Nam Ma river basins in Laos, the Red River basin in Vietnam and Yunnan, as well as in most of the coastal drainage basins of northern Vietnam.

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The public source identifies “Pocket-like lip barbel” as species of fish. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Pocket-like, barbel and species.

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The date and method of observation matter as much as the stated conclusion, especially where classification or consensus has changed. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q9055522. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pocket-like lip barbel” 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.