About Osteochilus vittatus (Valenciennes, 1842)
Osteochilus vittatus (Valenciennes, 1842) is a species of cyprinid fish native to Southeast Asia. It has several common names: bonylip barb, Hasselt's bony-lipped barb, hard-lipped barb, and silver sharkminnow. This species reaches a maximum standard length of 32 cm (13 in).
Osteochilus vittatus is widely distributed across the Malay Peninsula, Indochina, southern China's Yunnan province, Java, Sumatra, and Borneo. It can be found in the Salween, Mekong, and Chao Phraya basins, as well as in many smaller regional drainages.
It occupies a broad variety of freshwater habitats, including lowland marshlands, lakes, peat swamps, rivers, and hill streams. It is most commonly associated with large, slow-flowing streams that have bottoms ranging from muddy and sandy to rocky.
