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Scientific Name	**Batasio macronotus** Ng & Edds, 2004
Common Name
Type Locality	Purchased at Kosi barrage, Kosi River drainage, 26°31.5'N, 86°56'00"E, Saptari/Sunsari, Nepal.
Pronunciation	bah tah see oh
Etymology	The genus name comes from the local (Bengali) name of the fish (batasio or batashi).
Species Information
Size	89mm or 3.5" SL. Find near, nearer or same sized spp.
Identification	The bagrid genus Batasio Blyth comprises of small, laterally compressed catfishes distributed in South and Southeast Asia, diagnosed from its confamilials in having large sensory pores on the head, a narrow mental region, a pair of posteriorly-directed processes on the anterior part of vomer, a transversely-elongated bar-like entopterygoid, and the metapterygoid in close contact with the quadrate but free from the hyomandibular (Mo, 1991).
Sexing	Not known.
Habitat Information
Distribution	Asia: eastern Nepal. Indian waters, North Eastern India Waters, Padma, Ganges, Koshi (click on these areas to find other species found there) Login to view the map.
IUCN Red List Category	Data Deficient , range map and more is available on the IUCN species page. Last assessed 2009.
Husbandry Information
Feeding	Is known to take processed food but prefers live food like blood worms, frozen brine shrimp etc. Needs sometime to gradually get weaned off live foods. Spot feeding will help in case tank mates are voracious feeders. User data.
Compatibility	A peaceful species suitable for a hillstream biotope.
Suggested Tankmates	Peaceful Cyprinids like Puntius or Oreichthys and Balitorine loaches like Schistura or Nemacheilus species.
Breeding	Unreported in the aquarium.
Breeding Reports	There is no breeding report.
Further Information
Reference	Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters v. 15 (no. 4), pp296, Fig. 1.
Registered Keepers	There is no registered keeper.
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Last Update	2020 Oct 18 06:40 (species record created: 2011 Sep 23 08:42)