Baolan

Preserved color whitish yellow, paler ventrally, sides and back golden yellow; top of head dusky; all fins pale; in life basal half of caudal probably golden. Broad snout with median hump near bluntly rounded tip. Large circular eye with thickened adipose eyelid; anterior nostril with prominent erect tubule, the posterior margin forming a conspicuous flap; the posterior nostril large and open.

Dorsal spines (total): 4; Dorsal soft rays (total): 7; Analspines: 3; Analsoft rays: 5

Inhabits considerable depths. The most highly prized of Lanao cyprinids (Ref. 280).

fisheries: highly commercial

Barbodes baoulan, known locally as the Baolan, was a species of cyprinid endemic to Lake Lanao in Mindanao, the Philippines where it was found in deeper waters. This species reached a length of 10.8 centimetres (4.3 in) SL. It is now considered extinct.