About Onychostoma barbatulum (Pellegrin, 1908)
Onychostoma barbatulum, commonly known as the Taiwan shovel-jaw carp, is a species of ray-finned fish belonging to the family Cyprinidae. This species reaches a maximum standard length of 19 cm (7.5 in), and most adult individuals only grow to roughly half this maximum size. Onychostoma barbatulum is distributed in Taiwan and the Pearl River Basin of southern China. It is a herbivorous species that lives in fast-flowing river sections. Populations of this fish can be dramatically affected by disturbance caused by typhoons; one documented record notes that a typhoon-related event nearly wiped out a local population.
