Lepidocephalichthys hasselti
Lepidocephalichthys hasselti is a species of cobitid loach native to southeastern Asia and western Indonesia. This species reaches a length of TL.
Named in honor of Dutch physician and biologist Johan Coenraad van Hasselt, who while exploring the colonial Dutch East Indies in 1820 provided an illustration of this species.
Hasselt traveled with his friend Heinrich Kuhl.
Diagnosis
According to Kottelat & Lim 1992, L. hasselti is distinguished from other described species of Lepidocephalichthys in Southeast Asia in usually having an ocellated black spot centered at base of branched caudal rays 3–4; or it replaced by black or darker area. Its size is up to 45 mm SL; body with a median longitudinal stripe or a row of adjacent black spots, with an unpigmented stripe above it, back marmorated, finely spotted or blotched. Caudal fin with series of vertical bars; dorsal origin above posterior extremity of pelvic base.
It has a widespread distribution: Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Yunnan; southward through Peninsular Malaysia to western Indonesia. IUCN listed it as LC.