Myanmar arowana

Scleropages inscriptus ( inscriptus = " labeled " ) is a predator of the family of osteoglossid ( Osteoglossidae ). The species was described in 2012 and comes in the Burmese part of the Malay Peninsula, in the Tanintharyi Division ago. The exact distribution area (rivers Tananthayi and / or Tenasserim ) is unknown, since the type specimens of ornamental fish exporters from Rangoon and Meik come. Scleropages inscriptus is the only currently known from Myanmar Knochenzünglerart. Thai aquarists were known for about ten years, the color attractive fish.

Features

Scleropages inscriptus similar in morphology, dimensions, as well as fins and scales formula strongly the Asian Forkbeard ( Scleropages formosus ), whose distribution area is adjoined to the east. Scleropages inscriptus is therefore placed in the subgenus Dels Mania, which includes all Southeast Asian Scleropages species.

Of all the other südostasistischen and Australian Knochenzünglern to Scleropages different inscriptus by complex, colorful, maze - or wave-like marks on the scales of the sides of the body of the gill cover and around the eyes. These characteristic patterns appear only in large, full-grown specimens and absent in small individuals. In this case, this pattern as the fingerprints in humans, at every major fish varies. Similar colored scale pattern are known so far in any other bony fish.