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Scientific Name	**Batasio feruminatus** Ng & Kottelat, 2008
Common Name
Type Locality	Stream "Chon Son" between Kyondaw and Phadaw, about 20 kilometers northwest of Payathonzu, at border with Thailand, 15°25'N, 98°15'E, Ataran drainage, Kayin State, Myanmar.
Pronunciation	bah tah see oh
Etymology	The genus name comes from the local (Bengali) name of the fish (batasio or batashi).
Species Information
Size	60mm or 2.4" 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: Ataran River drainage in Myanmar. Salween, Ataran (click on these areas to find other species found there) Log in to view data on a map.
IUCN Red List Category	Not Evaluated
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. 18 (no. 4) [for 2007], pp 295, Fig. 7
Registered Keepers	There is no registered keeper.
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Last Update	2020 Jan 23 12:02 (species record created: 2008 Jan 07 13:47)