Parasilurus asotus

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

Overview

Family : Sheatfishes ; Commercially cultured in Japan. Feeds on all types of fish[1].

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Biome: Marine .

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Owstonia weberi • Owstonia weberi (Gilchrist, 1922) • Parasilurus asotus • Parasilurus asotus (Linnaeus, 1758) • Parasilurus asotus asotus (Linnaeus • Parasilurus biawaensis • Parasilurus biawaensis (Tomoda, 1961) • Parasilurus japonicus (Temminck & Schlegel • Silurus asotus Linnaeus • Silurus bedfordi Regan • Silurus biwaensis • Silurus biwaensis (Tomoda, 1961) • Silurus cinereus Dabry De Thiersant • Silurus dahuricus Pallas • Silurus dauuricus Pallas • Silurus lithophilus • Silurus lithophilus (Tomoda, 1961) • Silurus microdorsalis • Silurus microdorsalis (Mori, 1936) • Silurus punctatus Cantor • Stathmonotus sinuscalifornici • Stathmonotus sinuscalifornici (Chabanaud, 1942)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Data last modified by FishBase 16-Dec-1997

Similar Species

Members of the genus Parasilurus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 2 species and subspecies in this genus:

P. asotus (California Worm Blenny) · P. asotus asotus (Far Eastern Catfish)

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Further Reading

• A catalog of the fishes known from the waters of Korea / by David Starr Jordan and Charles William Metz. Pittsburgh, : Published by the authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, [1913] url p. 12.
• A catalog of the fishes of Formosa. By David Starr Jordan and Robert Earl Richardson. Pittsburgh, Board of trustees of the Carnegie institute, 1909. url p. 168.
• A catalog of the fishes of the island of Formosa, or Taiwan: based on the collections of Dr. Hans Sauter / by David Starr Jordan and Robert Earl Richardson. Pittsburgh: Published by the authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, [1907?] url p. 168.
• A guide to the study of fishes, New York, H. Holt, 1905. url .
• A guide to the study of fishes, by David Starr Jordan. .. New York, H. Holt and Company, 1905. url p. 183.
• Annals of the Carnegie Museum. [Pittsburgh]: Published by authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1901- url p. 176.
• Camallanata of animals and man and diseases caused by them = Kamallanaty zhivotnykh i cheloveka i vyzyvaemye ime zabolevaniya / V. M. Ivashkin, A. A. Sobolev, and L. A. Khromova; translated from Russian [by Hilary Hardin]. Jerusalem: Israel Program for Scientific Translations, 1977. url p. 195, p. 296, p. 297, p. 298, p. 44.
• Catalog of fossil fishes in the Carnegie Museum / by Charles R. Eastman. Pittsburgh: Published by the authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, [1911-] url p. 441.
• Central Asiatic Expeditions of the American Museum of Natural History, under the leadership of Roy Chapman Andrews: preliminary contributions in geology, palaeontology, and zoology / by R.C. Andrews. .. [et al.] [New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1926-1930]. url p. 399, p. 5.
• Current bibliography for aquatic sciences and fisheries. London, Taylor & Francis ltd. url .
• Dean bibliography of fishes. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1971-1973. url p. 130, p. 194, p. 220, p. 224, p. 274, p. 300, p. 492.
• Illinois biological monographs. Urbana, Univ. of Illinois Press. url p. 155.
• Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum. Pittsburgh: Published by the authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1901-1936. url p. 12, p. 168, p. 213, p. 432, p. 441, p. ix.
• Occasional papers of the California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, url p. 4, p. 52.
• Ontogeny and systematics of fishes: based on an international symposium dedicated to the memory of Elbert Halvor Ahlstrom / sponsored by the National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States Dept. of Commerce. [New York?]: American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, c1984. url p. 130.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 868.
• Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url p. 111, p. 790.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 308, p. 340, p. 4, p. 403, p. 483, p. 670, p. 689, p. 903, p. 941.
• Record of fishes obtained in Japan in 1911, by David Starr Jordan and William Francis Thompson. Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, 1914 url p. 213.
• Record of the fishes obtained in Japan in 1911 / by David Starr Jordan and William Francis Thompson. Pittsburgh: Published by the authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, [1914] url p. 213.
• Special scientific report--wildlife / U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service. Washington, D.C.: The Service, 1949- url p. 151, p. 329, p. 339, p. 51, p. 73.
• Special scientific report. Seattle, National Marine Fisheries Service; for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1949-1971. url p. 44.
• Spixiana. 12 1989 Mnchen: Zoologische Staatssammlung Mnchen, 1977- url fig. 1, figs. 4-5, p. 92, p. 95.
• Studies on Myxosporidia; a synopsis of genera and species of Myxosporidia; with 25 plates and 2 textfigures, by Rokusaburo Kudo. .. Urbana, Ill., University of Illinois, c1920 url p. 155, p. 155.
• The Biological bulletin. Woods Hole, Mass.: Marine Biological Laboratory, url , , p. 250, p. 271, p. 360, p. 362, p. 363, p. 366, p. 369.
• The fishes of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. .. by Dr. Max Weber. .. and Dr. L.F. de Beaufort. Leiden, E.J. Brill, Ltd., 1911- url p. 291, p. 368, p. 369.
• The fresh-water fishes of China / by John Treadwell Nichols; with 143 figures in the text, 10 colored plates, and 1 map. 1943 New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1943. url bibliography, page 277, p. 34, p. xi.
• The lipids, their chemistry and biochemistry. New York, Interscience Publishers, 1951-57. url p. 84, p. 869, p. 870.
• The vertebrate eye and its adaptive radiation [by] Gordon Lynn Walls. Bloomfield Hills, Mich., Cranbrook Institute of Science, 1942 url p. 707.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 21, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 01, 2008:

• FishBase: FishBase DiGIR Provider - Philippine Server
• GBIF-Sweden: Fishes (NRM)
• Museum national d'histoire naturelle: Ichtyologie
• Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: MCZ Fish Collection
• Royal Ontario Museum: Fish specimens
• University of Kansas Biodiversity Research Center: Fish Collection

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 1
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-31883
• Fishbase Species ID: 6566
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2860820

Footnotes

1. Dulmaa, A. (1999). Fish and fisheries in Mongolia. p. 187-236. In T. Petr (ed.) Fish and fisheries at higher altitudes: Asia. FAO Fish. Tech. Pap. No. 385. FAO, Rome. 304 p. [back]

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