Indostomus paradoxus (Armoured Stickleback) — Seriously Fish | 水產百科網

Indostomusspp.tendtoinhabitslow-movingorstandingwatersamongsubmergedmacrophytes,riparianvegetationorleaflitter.AtthetypelocalityofI.

Order: Gasterosteiformes Family: Indostomidae[1][2]

Described from Lake Indawgyi, with most of the type series collected at its northern end, near Nyaungbin, Kachin state, northern Myanmar, and subsequently recorded in tributaries of the Ayeyarwady/Irrawaddy River[3] around the state capital of Myitkyina. More recently it’s been found much further south near the town of Einme in the river’s delta region, and thus appears to be considerably more widespread than previously thought.

Indostomus spp. tend to inhabit slow-moving or standing waters among submerged macrophytes, riparian vegetation or leaf litter. At the type locality of I. paradoxus the substrate was composed of black clay and water full of green algae, rotten and rotting vegetation (Prashad and Mukerji, 1929).

In March 2003 it was collected fr...