Basa fish

Basa at a market in Vietnam

Pangasius bocourti, sometimes Basa by the Vietnamese name of the beast, is a species of the genus Pangasius within the family of shark catfish. The species occurs in the river systems of the Mekong and Chao Phraya ago in Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Thailand, where it is a popular food fish, which is also taken into aquaculture.

Features

Pangasius bocourti is a powerfully built fish with bluish- black back. The head is broader than long and rounded with a blunt - rounded snout, which has a broad, white band around the muzzle. On each side of the jaw teeth are only one group at the vomer and the palatine bone available. The kind reaches a length of up to 120 cm. The anal fin bears 31 to 35 soft rays.

Way of life

Pangasius bocourti populated major rivers and can be found here both in fast and in slow-moving sections. As a dietary used mainly plant material, but also arthropods, molluscs and fish are eaten. At the beginning of the flood period, the eggs are laid, then wander the Altfische in the flooded areas a.

Swell

• Pangasius bocourti on Fishbase.org (English)

Weblink

• Bocourti Pangasius in the Red List of Threatened Species IUCN 2013.1. Posted by: Vidthayanon, C., 2011, Retrieved on 17 November 2013.

• Siamese catfish
• Pangasiidae