Barbodes binotatus ( Valenciennes, 1842 )

Ikhwanuddin, Mat Esa Mohd, Amal, Mohammad Noor Azmai, Aziz, Azizul, Sepet, Johari, Talib, Abdullah, Ismail, Muhammad Faiz & Hashim, Nor Rasidah, 2017, Inventory of fishes in the upper Pelus River (Perak river basin, Perak, Malaysia), Check List 13 (4), pp. 315-325 : 317

Barbodes binotatus ( Valenciennes, 1842)

Barbodes binotatus Valenciennes 1842: 168 .

Barbus maculatus var. hagenii Popta 1911: 9 .

Barbus simplex Schreitmüller 1935: 508 .

Material examined. Table 1; Figure 3c.

This species has 4 spines on dorsal fin, 8 soft dorsalfin rays, 3 spines on anal fin, and 5 soft anal-fin rays. The lateral line is complete at 4½ scales between lateral line and dorsal fin origin; 4 barbels; last simple dorsal-fin ray is bony and serrated behind; 1 large blotch at ante- rior base of dorsal-fin ray and a round spot in the middle of caudal peduncle (dark, wedge-shaped blotch on each flank, beneath the dorsal-fin in B. banksi ). This species can be found in middle to bottom depths in fairly shallow waters where it feeds on zooplankton, insect larvae and some vascular plants ( Rainboth 1996).