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Belido
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Scientific Classification
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Actinopterygii
Order Osteoglossiformes
Family Notopteridae
Genus Chitala
Conservation Status
EXSpecies
Extinct

The Belido (Chitala lopis) was a freshwater fish endemic to the islands of Java and Sumatra in Indonesia. It inhabited lowland river mainstreams and tributaries with rocky and sunken wood bottoms, as well as forest-covered streams, and it fed on smaller fishes, insects and vertebrates, mostly at night. It is now considered extinct.

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