Author: Kottelat, 2000
Comments: Collected in swift creeks under forest cover (Ref. 36949).  Also recorded from a stream with clear water ((16 °C; pH 8.1; 250 μs/cm; measured on 1 January 2011 at 11:00 am) that flowed over boulders and rocks with moderate to fast current. Found syntopic with nemacheilids <i>Schistura macrocephalus and <i>Pteronemacheilus meridionalis, the snakehead <i>Channa gachua, and cyprinids such as <i>Barilius pulchellus, <i>Devario chrysotaeniatus, <i>Poropuntius huangchuchieni, and  <i>Scaphiodonichthys acanthopterus (Ref. 95066).