Batrachocephalus mino
| Batrachocephalus mino (Hamilton, 1822) | |
|---|---|
| Conservation status | |
| Not evaluated (IUCN 3.1) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Ariidae |
| Subfamily: | Ariinae |
| Genus: | Batrachocephalus Bleeker, 1846 |
| Species: | B. mino |
| Binomial name | |
| Batrachocephalus mino (F. Hamilton, 1822) | |
| Synonyms | |
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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 centimetres (9.8 in) TL.[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" (PDF). Zootaxa 1418: 1–628.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). "Batrachocephalus mino" in FishBase. December 2011 version.