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Ketengus typus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Family: Ariidae
Genus: Ketengus
Bleeker, 1847
Species:
K. typus
Binomial name
Ketengus typus
Bleeker, 1847
Synonyms

Pimelodus pectinidens Cantor, 1849

Ketengus typus, the bigmouth sea-catfish, is the only species in the sea catfish genus Ketengus (order Siluriformes).[1][2]

This fish is found in South and Southeast Asia in India, Andaman Islands, Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia.[1] It is distributed in the Eastern Bay of Bengal and Malay Peninsula in nearshore coastal waters, estuaries, and lower reaches of rivers.[2] It lives mostly in brackish waters and rarely freshwaters.[1]

K. typus feeds on scale of other fishes, invertebrates and small fishes.[3] K. typus grows up to 25.0 centimetres TL.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c 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.
  2. ^ a b Ferraris, Carl J., Jr. (2007). "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1418: 1–628.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Ketengus typus". FishBase. December 2011 version.


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