(Photo: Michal Maňas, CC BY 3.0)

This small, slender fish lives in clear rivers and streams in the Stour Catchment, including chalk streams, but your chances of seeing one are very slim. As well as being well camouflaged, with a habit of burying itself in the river bed sand and gravel, it is also nocturnal, feeding on freshwater shrimps and other invertebrates, using whisker-like sensory organs called barbels to detect prey. It is one of many fish species that enhancements to river habitats carried out by KSCP will benefit.