Bagarius rutilus

Bagarius rutilus

Bagarius rutilus is a species from the genus of devil catfish ( Bagarius ) and the mountain catfish family ( Sisoridae ). It occurs in the river systems of the Nam Ma and the Red River in Southeast Asia.

Features

Bagarius rutilus reaches a body length of up to about one meter. The head is broad and flattened, with large, wide mouth and four pairs of barbels, one of which has the pair in the upper jaw, a well-educated membrane. The animals are dark yellow with three dark brown bands or spots on the back and some minor brown spots on the body. The skin is heavily keratinized and has numerous large, elongated nodules on the head and along the spine. The belly is bright yellow. The fins are orange with irregularly distributed brown dots. The dorsal fin has a rigid beam and six soft rays, the anal fin 12 or 13 soft rays. The latter sits behind the kurzbasigen and free at the end of adipose fin. The pelvic fins have 12 or 13 rays, the caudal fin has eight or nine rays.

Documents

  • Bagarius rutilus on Fishbase.org (English)

Weblink

  • Bagarius rutilus in the Red List of Threatened Species IUCN 2013.2. Posted by: Allen, D., 2011, Accessed on 10 January 2014.
  • Catfish
  • Siluriformes
Taxonomic rank#All ranks Ostariophysi Red River (Asia) Barbel (anatomy) Fish fin
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