Batrachocephalus
Appearance
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Siluriformes |
Family: | Ariidae |
Genus: | Batrachocephalus Bleeker, 1846 |
Species: | B. mino
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Binomial name | |
Batrachocephalus mino (F. Hamilton, 1822)
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Batrachocephalus mino, the beardless sea catfish, is the only species of catfish (order Siluriformes) in the genus Batrachocephalus of the family Ariidae.[1] This species occurs in marine and brackish waters of Bay of Bengal, and parts of the western central Pacific, in coastal waters, estuaries, and lower reaches of rivers.[1] It is distributed from Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Malaysia, Thailand, to Indonesia.[2]
This fish reaches about 25.0 cm (9.8 in) in total length.[2]
B. mino feeds on invertebrates and small fishes. It is caught commercially for human consumption.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Ferraris, Carl J. Jr. (2007). "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1418: 1–628. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1418.1.1.
- ^ a b Marceniuk, Alexandre P.; Menezes, Naércio A. (2007). "Systematics of the family Ariidae (Ostariophysi, Siluriformes), with a redefinition of the genera" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1416: 1–126. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1416.1.1.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2011). "Batrachocephalus mino" in FishBase. December 2011 version.
Categories:
- Ariidae
- Catfish of Asia
- Fish of the Pacific Ocean
- Marine fish of Asia
- Marine fauna of Southeast Asia
- Fish of Bangladesh
- Fish of India
- Fish of Myanmar
- Fish of Pakistan
- Fish of Sri Lanka
- Fish of Thailand
- Freshwater fish of Indonesia
- Freshwater fish of Malaysia
- Catfish genera
- Monotypic ray-finned fish genera
- Taxa named by Pieter Bleeker
- Ariidae stubs