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Prefectural Natural Monument
Fish
Wataka
Ischikauia steenackeri
The Wataka is a cyprinid freshwater fish that is unusual in feeding largely on water plants. It originally inhabited Lake Biwa and the Yodo River system. The populations in the mirror ponds of Todai-ji in Nara and Isonokami Shrine in Tenri, long resident there, are designated Natural Monuments.
- Scientific name
- Ischikauia steenackeri
- Group
- Fish
- Prefectures
- Nara
- 日本語
- ワタカ
- 简体中文
- 瓦塔卡鱼（Wataka）
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The Wataka is designated as a species without a fixed area and lives in places such as Nara.
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