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🧬 Biological Classification (Kingdom to Species)Cobitis pumila

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Actinopteri

Order

Cypriniformes

Family

Cobitidae

Genus

Cobitis

Species

Cobitis pumila

📏 True-scale comparison (1 m = 1 m) against a 1.75 m humanLength 6.5cm

🔍 Zoomed View — Same scale as a credit card & 2.65cm coin

· Grid units represent actual meters (m); human and animals are drawn to the exact same scale with original silhouette aspect ratios preserved.
· When a size range is recorded (e.g. 1–1.6m), the lower bound is used for scale comparison.
· Puan spine loach silhouette: PhyloPic — Krüger, Jr. · Public Domain Mark 1.0 (Cobitis taenia)
· Human silhouette: PhyloPic — NASA · Public Domain Mark 1.0

• Length vs. 1.75 m human: 0.04× Compare with other species →

Actinopteri🍂 Omnivore

Puan spine loach

Cobitis pumila (Puan spine loach · シマドジョウ)

🛡️ Conservation Status (IUCN Red List)EN (Endangered)

DDData Deficient

LCLeast Concern

NTNear Threatened

VUVulnerable

ENEndangered

CRCritically End.

EWExtinct in Wild

EXExtinct

🇰🇷 Class II endangered wildlife (Korea)

Geological Era

Extant

Diet

Omnivore

Length · Height

6.5cm · No data

Mass · Top Speed

No data · No data

Habitat & Fossil Locality

Gently flowing sandy and gravelly bottoms 20–50 cm deep in Baekcheon Stream on the Byeonsan Peninsula, Buan-gun, Jeollabuk-do

💡 Everyday Comparisons for Size, Mass & Speed

💡 Its body length of 6.5 cm is about the length of two and a half Korean 500-won coins (about 2.65 cm in diameter) lined up (Comparison).
💡 It is an example showing how dam construction, such as Buan Dam, reduces the habitat of small fishes.

Reference standards: coach bus ~12 m, mid-size car ~4.9 m, compact car ~1 t, basketball hoop 3.05 m, credit card 8.56 cm.

#부안종개#Cobitis pumila

📖 1. Overview

The Puan spine loach is a small freshwater loach living only in Baekcheon Stream in Buan-gun, Jeollabuk-do, Korea.

🦴 2. Anatomy & Morphology

Its body and head are flattened from side to side, it has 3 pairs of barbels, and small dark brown spots are lined up along the side of its body from behind the gills to the tail.

🔍 3. Ecology & Behavior

As an omnivore, it eats microorganisms attached to gravel as well as aquatic insects, and spawns around May with a clutch size of 142–878 eggs (328 on average).

🇰🇷 4. Connection to Korea

It is a Class II endangered wildlife (Korea) species and a Korean endemic found only in Baekcheon Stream in Buan-gun. Its habitat shrank sharply due to the construction of Buan Dam in the 1990s.