Figure 5. Microrasbora kubotai, aquarium specimen, about 20 mm SL, not preserved; Thailand: Ranong Province (photograph by A. van den Nieuwenhuizen).
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Coloration. Preserved specimens. The body is yellowish with a black interaxial stripe. The stripe is more diffuse anteriorly where melanophores are more scattered; it ends shortly before caudal fin base. A few black pigments over hypural complex. A thin black stripe from top of head to caudal fin origin along dorsal mid-line. A black stripe from anus to caudal-fin base along ventral mid-line. A row of black pigments parallel to this last stripe above anal-fin base. Dorsal half of body with a reticulated pattern made of rows of pigments along edges of the two upper rows of scales. A black botch on nape; a silvery blotch on opercle. Fins hyaline with a few scattered pigments on rays of unpaired and pectoral fins. Live specimens. In the field, translucent yellow. Aquarium-kept specimens greenish yellow, with a glowing golden lateral stripe, belly, eye and opercle (see Fig. 5).
Distribution. Known from the western slope of Peninsular Thailand, from north of Ranong to Phangnga.