Schilbeidae

Clupisoma garua

The glass catfish ( Schilbeidae ) come in all of Africa south of the Sahara, with the exception of the Cape, but including the entire Nile to the lower reaches, and to the west in South Asia from the lower reaches of the Indus through Southeast Asia to Southern China and in Indonesia the Wallace Line ago.

Features

There are six centimeters to 1.80 meters long fish that get their name from the bright, often almost translucent, whitish to silvery body color. Her body is slender, elongated and laterally compressed. The head is flat, with three to four pairs of barbels around the mouth. The anal fin is very long, with 24-90 fin rays and is not grown together with the forked tail fin. The dorsal fin is short, has a hard jet and missing in the genera Ailia and Parailia. The pelvic fins are absent in some species.

Way of life

Glass catfish are diurnal schooling fish that do not like the majority of catfish on the river bottom, but mostly life lively floating in open water. Some species also remain mostly silent, only slightly with the tail fin slapping between aquatic plants. Glass catfish feed on smaller fish, crustaceans and insects. They are oviparous.

Genera and species

African genera ( 34 species ):

  • Irvineia Trewavas, 1943 Irvineia orientalis Trewavas, 1964
  • Irvineia voltae Trewavas, 1943
  • Parailia congica Boulenger, 1899
  • Parailia occidentalis ( Pellegrin, 1901)
  • Parailia pellucida ( Boulenger, 1901)
  • Parailia somalensis ( Vinciguerra, 1897)
  • Parailia spiniserrata Svensson, 1933
  • Pareutropius buffei ( Grass, 1961)
  • Pareutropius debauwi ( Boulenger, 1900)
  • Pareutropius longifilis ( Steindachner, 1914)
  • Pareutropius mandevillei Poll, 1959
  • Schilbe angolensis ( De Vos, 1984)
  • Schilbe banguelensis ( Boulenger, 1911)
  • Schilbe bocagii ( Guimarães, 1884)
  • Schilbe brevianalis ( Pellegrin, 1929)
  • Schilbe congensis ( Leach, 1818)
  • Schilbe djeremi ( Thys van den Audenaerde & De Vos, 1982)
  • Schilbe durinii ( Gianferrari, 1932)
  • Schilbe grenfelli ( Boulenger, 1900)
  • Schilbe intermedius Rüppell, 1832
  • Schilbe laticeps ( Boulenger, 1899)
  • Schilbe mandibular ( Günther, 1867)
  • Schilbe marmoratus Boulenger, 1911
  • Schilbe micropogon ( Trewavas, 1943)
  • Schilbe moebiusii ( Pfeffer, 1896)
  • Schilbe multitaeniatus ( Pellegrin, 1913)
  • Schilbe Mystus (Linnaeus, 1758) Schilbe uranoscopus
  • Schilbe nyongensis ( De Vos, 1981)
  • Schilbe tumbanus ( Pellegrin, 1926)
  • Schilbe uranoscopus Rüppell, 1832
  • Schilbe yangambianus (Poll, 1954)
  • Schilbe zairensis De Vos, 1995
  • Siluranodon auritus (E. Geoffroy Saint- Hilaire, 1809)

Asian genera ( 20 species ):

  • Ailia Gray, 1830 Ailia Coila Ailia Coila (F. Hamilton, 1822)
  • Ailiichthys punctata F. Day, 1872
  • Clupisoma Bastari Datta & Karmakar, 1980
  • Clupisoma garua (F. Hamilton, 1822)
  • Clupisoma longianalis ( S. Y. Huang, 1981)
  • Clupisoma montana Hora, 1937
  • Clupisoma Naziri Mirza & M. I. Awan, 1973
  • Clupisoma nujiangense XY Chen, Ferraris & JX Yang, 2005
  • Clupisoma prateri Hora, 1937
  • Clupisoma roosae Ferraris, 2004
  • Clupisoma sinense ( S. Y. Huang, 1981)
  • Eutropiichthys britzi Ferraris & Vari, 2007
  • Eutropiichthys burmannicus F. Day, 1877
  • Eutropiichthys goongwaree ( Sykes, 1839)
  • Eutropiichthys murius (F. Hamilton, 1822)
  • Eutropiichthys salweenensis Ferraris & Vari, 2007
  • Eutropiichthys vacha (F. Hamilton, 1822)
  • Laides hexanema ( Bleeker, 1852)
  • Laides longibarbis ( Fowler, 1934)
  • Neotropius acutirostris ( F. Day, 1870)
  • Neotropius atherinoides ( Bloch, 1794)
  • Neotropius khavalchor Kulkarni, 1952
  • Platytropius yunnanensis JC He, KW Huang & HE Li, 1995
  • Proeutropiichthys buchanani ( Valenciennes, 1840)
  • Proeutropiichthys macropthalmos ( Blyth, 1860)
  • Proeutropiichthys taakree ( Sykes, 1839)
  • Pseudeutropius brachypopterus ( Bleeker, 1858)
  • Pseudeutropius indigens HH Ng & Vidthayanon, 2011
  • Pseudeutropius mitchelli Günther, 1864
  • Pseudeutropius moolenburghae MCW Weber & de Beaufort, 1913
  • Silonia childreni ( Sykes, 1839)
  • Silonia silondia (F. Hamilton, 1822)

The well-known from the Aquaristik Indian Glass catfish does not belong to the family of glass catfish, but also to the rights of catfish ( Siluridae ).

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