This is one of several species discovered and explains the origin of the fish's common name: Burmese Border Loach.

[2] Its specific epithet honors Katsuma Kubota of an aquarium export company in Thailand who first purchased the catch and sent them out for identification.

It has gold, black, and grey colors arranged in a pattern that varies greatly depending on the age of the fish.

At about 5 cm, the top and bottom part of the vertical bands start to merge, producing a pattern of big yellow ovals along the body.

Newly purchased, it is a good idea to treat them for internal parasites, a very common problem for wild-caught bottom feeder fishes.