Author: Kottelat, 2017
Comments: Three sampling sites of this species are characterized by deep water, very slow current, dense shore vegetation, large extents of floating mats of plants, and bottom composed of mud or clay covered with a layer of vegetal debris. Collected from leaf litter, from among the dense vegetation or by scraping the underside of the 'floating' vegetation using a tray net . The following fish species were collected in the same micro-habitat: <i>Oreichthys</i> sp., <i>Pethia erythromycter</i>, <i>Heteropneustes fossilis</i>, <i>Chaudhuria</i> sp., <i>Mastacembelus pantherinus</i>, <i>Monopterus cuchia</i>, <i>Indostomus paradoxus</i>, <i>Badis corycaeus</i>, <i>Dario hysginon</i> (Ref. 117200).