Ompok bimaculatus

Ompok bimaculatus
Conservation status

Near Threatened  (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Family: Siluridae
Genus: Ompok
Binomial name
Ompok bimaculatus
(Bloch, 1794)

Ompok bimaculatus, known as Butter Catfish, is a species of sheatfishes native to Asian countries such as Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, but recently identified in Myanmar.[1][2]


References

  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. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Ompok bimaculatus" in FishBase. April 2013 version.