Batrachocephalus_mino

<i>Batrachocephalus</i>

Batrachocephalus

Species of catfish

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]

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This fish reaches about 25.0 cm (9.8 in) in total length.[2]

B. mino feeds on invertebrates and small fishes. It is caught commercially for human consumption.[3]

References

  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. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1418.1.1.
  2. [2]
    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.
  3. [3]
    Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2011). "Batrachocephalus mino" in FishBase. December 2011 version.


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