Biology:Batrachocephalus
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Short description: Species of catfish
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Ariidae |
| Genus: | Batrachocephalus Bleeker, 1846 |
| Species: | B. mino
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| 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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ferraris, Carl J. Jr. (2007). "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types". Zootaxa 1418: 1–628. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1418.1.1. http://silurus.acnatsci.org/ACSI/library/biblios/2007_Ferraris_Catfish_Checklist.pdf.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Marceniuk, Alexandre P.; Menezes, Naércio A. (2007). "Systematics of the family Ariidae (Ostariophysi, Siluriformes), with a redefinition of the genera". Zootaxa 1416: 1–126. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1416.1.1. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2007f/zt01416p126.pdf.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). "Batrachocephalus mino" in FishBase. December 2011 version.
Wikidata ☰ Q1815258 entry
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