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The conservation status, species identification, distribution, specific habitat and ecology of a threatened, endemic cyprinid fish, Onychostoma alticorpus (Oshima 1919) is reported herein. It is merely found in five river basins of Taiwan. The protection of natural habitat would be very essential.
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Chen, IS. (2007). Threatened fishes of the world: Onychostoma alticorpus (Oshima, 1920) (Cyprinidae). In: Noakes, D.L.G., Romero, A., Zhao, Y., Zhou, Y. (eds) Chinese Fishes. Developments in Environmental Biology of Fishes, vol 28. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3458-8_11
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