Clarias brachysoma

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Family : Airbreathing catfishes ; Inhabits rain forest streams and lowland rivers . Feeds at night on fish, worms, frogs , tadpoles and crustaceans.

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Biome: Fresh water . Demersal .

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Clarias teysmanni (Non Bleeker

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Similar Species

Members of the genus Clarias

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 28 species and subspecies in this genus:

C. agboyiensis (Mudfish) · C. alluaudi (Allauad's Catfish) · C. anguillaris (Eel Catfish) · C. batrachus (Toyman's Spotted Catfish) · C. brachysoma (Walking Catfish) · C. cavernicola (Cave Catfish) · C. dayi (Malabar Clariid) · C. duchaillui (Lake Victoria Deepwater Catfish) · C. dussumieri (Valencienne's Clarid) · C. dussumieri dussumieri (Valenciennes Clariid) · C. fuscus (Whitespotted Freshwater Catfish) · C. gariepinus (North African Catfish) · C. jaensis (Catfish) · C. laeviceps (Ll) · C. laeviceps laeviceps (Catfish) · C. liocephalus (Smooth-Head Catfish) · C. macrocephalus (Freshwater Catfish) · C. magur (Wagur) · C. meladerma (Blackskin Catfish) · C. moorii (Blunt-Toothed African Catfish) · C. ngamensis (Blunt-Toothed African Catfish (FB)) · C. smithii (Blotched Catfish) · C. stappersii (Blotched Catfish) · C. submarginatus (Blotched Catfish) · C. teijsmanni (Teysmann's Spotted Catfish) · C. theodora (North African Catfish) · C. theodorae (Snake Catfish (FB)) · C. werneri (Werner´s Catfish)

More Info

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Further Reading

• Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum / by Albert Gu?nther. .. [Tokyo?]: Kagaku Kisho Hakkokai, Sho?wa 13 [1938]. url p. 20.
• The Journal of the Linnean Society of London. London: Academic Press [etc.], 1865-1968. url p. 349.

Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• FishBase 2006.
• FishBase. Release date: January 5, 2010
• Froese, R., and D. Pauly. FishBase 2004. International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
• Teugels, Guy (from FishBase).

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 124291
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-35546
• Fishbase Species ID: 13394
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 639985
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 107473

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