title: Royal knifefish
text: # Royal knifefish
  
  The royal knifefish or Indochina featherback, Chitala blanci, is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Notopteridae found in the Mekong basin in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam.
  
  ## In the aquarium
  
  The royal knifefish, often sold as the royal clown knifefish, is occasionally sold in the aquarium trade.
  
  