Discover new, extremely rare fish

The Banded archerfish of the basketfish family, is a new species for the first time recorded in Vietnam.

Small fish, very rare, and distributed in coastal areas and estuaries in the Southern provinces. This is one of eight species of fish in the Red Book of Vietnam discovered in the inland fish fauna of Ho Chi Minh City. HCM. These fishes are species with a small number of populations outside nature, which need to be protected to conserve biodiversity not only for the city area. HCM but also significant in biodiversity conservation of Vietnam.

Picture 1 of Discover new, extremely rare fish
Banded archerfish belong to the family of basa fish
first discovered in Vietnam (Photo: Nguyen Xuan Dong)

This is the result of a survey by Professor Nguyen Xuan Dong, Institute of Tropical Biology and colleagues in the research project 'Survey and build a database on fish fauna in inland waters of HCMC. HCM ' was checked and accepted in the morning of April 12 at Ho Chi Minh City Department of Planning and Investment. The project was implemented within 2 years (from December 2009 to December 2011) with a budget of 450 million VND issued by Ho Chi Minh City Department of Science and Technology.

However, the Acceptance Council stated that the research team has not yet released the biological characteristics of fish species, the risk and development direction of each specific species.