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Geographic Range [top]
Range Description: This species is known only from the Kinabatangan River, Sabah, (Siebert 1991). The Kiinabatangan River basin has a catchment area of 14,065 km².
Countries occurrence:
Native:
Malaysia (Sabah)
Additional data:
? Number of Locations: 1-10
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Population [top]
Population: The population details are presently unknown.
Current Population Trend: Unknown
Additional data:
? Population severely fragmented: No
Habitat and Ecology [top]
Habitat and Ecology: A. octoactinotos is a demersal species.
Systems: Freshwater
Threats [top]
Major Threat(s): The Kinabatangan River basin faces a number of threats, including clearing for agriculture, logging and oil palm plantations. Water quality has been declining since the 1960s, when commercial logging started in the upper catchment, and worsened in the 1980s when the oil palm plantations and mills began operations. The main pollution sources in the catchment are effluent from palm oil mills, pesticides, and fertilizers; sediment from plantations; sediment from logging activities; and sewage and refuse from villages along the river (Indran 2006).
Conservation Actions [top]
Conservation Actions: The lower part of the Kinabatangan River is protected as the Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary.
Citation: Jenkins, A., Kullander, F.F. & Tan, H.H. 2009. Acantopsis octoactinotos. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T169500A6638829. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009-2.RLTS.T169500A6638829.en. Downloaded on 05 September 2018.
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