Batrachocephalus mino

Batrachocephalus mino
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Actinopterygii
Order:Siluriformes
Family:Ariidae
Genus:Batrachocephalus
Bleeker, 1846
Species: B. mino
Binomial name
Batrachocephalus mino
(F. Hamilton, 1822)
Synonyms
  • Ageneiosus mino
    F. Hamilton, 1822
  • Batrachocephalus ageneiosus
    Bleeker, 1846
  • Batrachocephalus micropogon
    Bleeker, 1858

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 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 2 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. 1 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.
  3. ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). "Batrachocephalus mino" in FishBase. December 2011 version.


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