Ketengus
Appearance
Ketengus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Siluriformes |
Family: | Ariidae |
Genus: | Ketengus Bleeker, 1847 |
Species: | K. typus
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Binomial name | |
Ketengus typus Bleeker, 1847
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Synonyms | |
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Ketengus typus, the bigmouth sea-catfish, is the only species in the sea catfish genus Ketengus (order Siluriformes).[1][2]
This fish is found in South and Southeast Asia in India, Andaman Islands, Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia.[1] It is distributed in the Eastern Bay of Bengal and Malay Peninsula in nearshore coastal waters, estuaries, and lower reaches of rivers.[2] It lives mostly in brackish waters and rarely freshwaters.[1]
Katengus typus feeds on scale of other fishes, invertebrates and small fishes.[3] K. typus grows up to 25.0 centimetres TL.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c 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.
- ^ 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 Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Ketengus typus". FishBase. December 2011 version.
Categories:
- Ariidae
- Catfish of Asia
- Catfish of Oceania
- Fish of the Indian Ocean
- Fish of the Pacific Ocean
- Fish of South Asia
- Fish of India
- Fauna of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Fish of Thailand
- Fish of Indonesia
- Fish of Malaysia
- Marine fish of Southeast Asia
- Taxa named by Pieter Bleeker
- Catfish genera
- Monotypic ray-finned fish genera
- Ariidae stubs