Lepidocephalichthys hasselti is a species of cobitid loach native to southeastern Asia and western Indonesia.

[5] According to Kottelat & Lim 1992, L. hasselti is distinguished from other described species of Lepidocephalichthys in Southeast Asia in usually having an ocellated black spot centered at base of branched caudal rays 3–4; or it replaced by black or darker area.

Its size is up to 45 mm SL; body with a median longitudinal stripe or a row of adjacent black spots, with an unpigmented stripe above it, back marmorated, finely spotted or blotched.

Caudal fin with series (usually 3–6) of vertical bars; dorsal origin above posterior extremity of pelvic base.

[6] It has a widespread distribution: Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Yunnan; southward through Peninsular Malaysia to western Indonesia (Sumatra, Borneo and Java).