Biology:Wallagonia maculatus

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Wallagonia maculatus
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Family: Siluridae
Genus: Wallagonia
Species:
W. maculatus
Binomial name
Wallagonia maculatus
Inger & Chin, 1959
Synonyms

Wallago maculatus
Inger & Chin, 1959

Wallagonia maculatus is a species of catfish in the family Siluridae (the sheatfishes) endemic to Malaysia, where it is known only from Sabah in northern Borneo. This species grows up to a length of 100 centimetres (39 in) SL.[1][2]

Until osteological research validated the genus Wallagonia in 2014, W. maculatus was included in the genus Wallago.[3]

References

  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2014). "Wallago maculatus" in FishBase. July 2014 version.
  2. "Wallago maculatus Inger & Chin, 1959". Cat-eLog Data Sheets. PlanetCatfish. http://www.planetcatfish.com/common/species.php?species_id=1370. 
  3. Roberts, T.R. (2014): Wallago Bleeker, 1851 and Wallagonia Myers, 1938 (Ostariophysi, Siluridae), Distinct Genera of Tropical Asian Catfishes, with Description of †Wallago maemohensis from the Miocene of Thailand. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, 55 (1): 35-47. doi:10.3374/014.055.0103

Wikidata ☰ Q5591461 entry