| Bagarius yarrelli | |
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| Bagarius yarrelli | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Sisoridae |
| Subfamily: | Sisorinae |
| Genus: | Bagarius |
| Species: | B. yarrelli |
| Binomial name | |
| Bagarius yarrelli Sykes, 1839[1] |
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Giant Devil Catfish, Goonch, Pla Kaey, Sand Shark (Bagarius yarrelli) is a fish in genus Bagarius found in southern Asia and southeastern Asia[2].
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Widely distributed in southern and southeastern Asia (Ganges to Java).
The largest of the genus. This fish reaches an average of 72 inches (6 ft).
Often sold as its smaller counterpart, Bagarius bagarius. Cool, fast-flowing water required for this rapid dwelling fish. Tank should include large, smooth and rounded stones over a sandy substrate. Foods include bloodworms, shrimp and live or dead fish. Reportedly eats scales and fin parts of large fish kept with it. Will eat anything smaller than it.
The Kali River goonch attacks were a series of fatal attacks on humans believed to be perpetrated by man-eating goonch catfish in three villages on the banks of the Kali River in India, between 1998 and 2007. One report says that a persons head was found in the stomach of a Bagarius.