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Kissing Loach
Parabotia curtus
The ayumodoki or kissing loach (Parabotia curtus) is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Botiidae.
It is found in lakes and streams on Honshu, the largest island in Japan. Spawning grounds for kissing loach are ditches and small reservoirs for rice cultivation of a river system located in Japan. The kissing loach migrates to flooded areas, including paddy field areas, for spawning in early summer and the spawning of this species is limited after the formation of flooded areas over terrestrial vegetation. These flooded areas are the result of water from mountain streams and irrigation ponds flooding once dry land and creating man-made wetlands. As adults, Parabotia curtus migrate from these flooded paddy fields to fast moving, muddy streams and rivers like the Yodo River.
From the article Ayumodoki on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
What it does
Parabotia curtus only lay eggs once a year, and spawn in early summer in flooded areas like ditches or small reservoirs used to harvest rice. One of these spawning ground include paddy fields stemming from the Yoshii River in Okayama. They migrate from rivers like the Yoshii River in June and have to spawn very quickly since the flooded paddy fields and ditches are only flooded for a few days.
Wikipedia: “Reproduction”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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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 611909.