Two new localities for Lobocheilos falcifer (Valenciennes, 1842) (Teleostei: Cyprinidae), a rare and vulnerable freshwater fish species of Java, Indonesia

Ahan Endangered species Labeoninae Native species.

Authors

  • Veryl Hasan Aquaculture Department, Fisheries and Marine Faculty, Airlangga University, Surabaya, Indonesia.
  • Lucas de Oliveria Vieira Laboratory of Systematics and Ecology of Aquatic Organisms, Center of Agrarian and Environmental Sciences (CCAA), Federal University of Maranhào, Chapadinha-MA, Brazil.
  • Felipe Polivanov Ottoni Laboratory of Systematics and Ecology of Aquatic Organisms, Center of Agrarian and Environmental Sciences (CCAA), Federal University of Maranhào, Chapadinha-MA, Brazil.
  • Endang Dewi Masithah Marine Department, Fisheries and Marine Faculty, Airlangga University, Surabaya, Indonesia.
August 9, 2021

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Lobocheilos falcifer is a rare and vulnerable freshwater fish species from Java, Indonesia and currently listed as Vulnerable (VU) within the IUCN Red List. In 2019, three specimens of L. falcifer were collected and photographed on Rawa Pening Lake, Semarang Regency, Central Java Province and Solo River, Karanganyar Regency, Central Java Province as two new localities for this species, extending its distribution in about 80 km to southeast. We also provided the morphological data of this species as well.