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| Batrachocephalus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Division: | Teleostei |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Ariidae |
| Genus: | Batrachocephalus Bleeker, 1846 |
| Species: | B. mino |
| 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]- 1 2 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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-03-11. Retrieved 2008-09-19.
- 1 2 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.). "Batrachocephalus mino". FishBase. December 2011 version.
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- Fish of Thailand
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- Freshwater fish of Malaysia
- Catfish genera
- Monotypic Actinopterygii genera
- Taxa named by Francis Buchanan-Hamilton
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