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Red tailed tinfoil

species of fish

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ6425588 ↗
Source-derived summary

The red tailed tinfoil or red tailed tinfoil barb (Barbonymus altus) is a species of freshwater cyprinid fish from South-East Asia. It lives in the Mekong and Chao Phraya river basins.

References

Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Barbonymus altus". FishBase.

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“Red tailed tinfoil” enters the record as species of fish. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what tailed, tinfoil 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 40-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around tailed, tinfoil and species.
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This entry incorporates text from “Red tailed tinfoil” 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.