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Pseudobagarius meridionalis is a species of catfish belonging to the family Akysidae (the stream catfishes). It is only known from the Barito River basin in southern Borneo.[1]

Pseudobagarius meridionalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Siluriformes
Family:	Akysidae
Genus:	Pseudobagarius
Species:	P. meridionalis
Binomial name
Pseudobagarius meridionalis (Ng & Siebert, 2004)
Synonyms[1]
Akysis meridionalis Ng & Siebert, 2004

This is a very small catfish, up to 32 mm standard length, with a body dark brown above with a few scattered pale spots and white below, with a strongly projected upper jaw so that the premaxillary teeth are clearly visible even when the mouth is closed.

References

• Ferraris, Carl J. Jr. (2007). "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types" (PDF). Zootaxa. Magnolia Press. 1418: 1–628. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1418.1.1.
• Ng, H. H. & Siebert, D. J. (2004). "A new species of the catfish genus Akysis (Siluriformes: Akysidae) from southern Borneo" (PDF). Zootaxa. Magnolia Press. 733: 1–8.

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