Pocket-like lip barbel

{{Short description|Species of fish}}

{{Speciesbox

| status = DD

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Huckstorf, V. |date=2012 |title=Paraspinibarbus macracanthus |page=e.T181019A1689172 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T181019A1689172.en |access-date=18 November 2021}}

| taxon = Paraspinibarbus macracanthus

| display_parents = 3

| parent_authority = X.-L. Chu & Kottelat, 1989{{Cof family|family=Cyprininae|access-date=16 December 2024}}

| authority = (Pellegrin & Chevey, 1936){{Cof genus|genus=Paraspinibarbus|access-date=16 December 2024}}

| synonyms =

• Spinibarbus macracanthus Pellegrin & Chevey, 1936
• Parator macracanthus (Pellegrin & Chevey, 1936)
• Balantiocheilus hekouensis Wu, 1977

| synonyms_ref = {{FishBase|Paraspinibarbus|macracanthus|month=October|year=2024}}

}}

The pocket-like lip barbel (Paraspinibarbus macracanthus) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish from the carp and minnow family, the Cyprinidae. It occurs in the Nam Xam and Nam Ma river basins in Laos, the Red River basin in Vietnam and Yunnan, as well as in most of the coastal drainage basins of northern Vietnam.