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Hainan medaka
Oryzias curvinotus
Oryzias curvinotus, or the Curved-back ricefish,Hainan medaka, is a species of ricefish which is found in Quang Ninh Province in northern Vietnam and Hainan, Guangdong and Hong Kong in southern China and Taiwan. It is found in both fresh and brackish water. This species was described as Aplocheilus curvinotus in 1927 by J.T. Nichols and C.H. Pope with the type locality given as Nodoa, Hainan Island, China.
Oryzias curvinotus can grow to 4 cm (1.6 in) total length.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 187933.