Pangasius pangasius

Pangasius pangasius

Pangasius pangasius is the type species of the genus Pangasius fish within the family of shark catfish. The species is found in large rivers and estuaries of the Indian subcontinent and Myanmar. It is found in the Ganges, Godavari and Irrawaddy and possibly in Krishna. The species is an important food fish that is caught in the wild stock and pulled various countries including Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam in aquaculture. In this function, the species was probably reintroduced in many parts of its range.

Features

Pangasius pangasius with up to three meters body length about Pangasius sanitwongsei the largest species of the genus. The muzzle is running in young animals to pointed, but rounded in older animals. The eye is small. The mouth is inferior, the Gaumenbezahnung consists of two rows of teeth on palatine and vomer. The barbels extend to the gill opening. The body has no particular drawing, but the tail fin in adult animals is colored bright yellow. The dorsal fin carries two hard and seven soft rays, the anal fin 29 to 32 soft rays. The gills Reuse carries on first arch 23 to 28 rays.

Way of life

The type populated than young animals the freshwater area of ​​estuaries and later emigrated into the brackish water and coastal areas. As a dietary used different molluscs, insects, other invertebrates, fish and plants. Sexual maturity is reached at about 60 cm in length, the life expectancy is about 10 years.

Swell

  • Tyson R. Roberts, Chavalit Vidthayanon: Systematic revision of the Asian catfish family Pangasiidae, with biological observations and descriptions of three new species. In: Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 143, 1991, pp. 97-144.
  • Hamilton, F. (formerly Buchanan ) ( 1822): An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches. Edinburgh & London.

Weblink

  • Pangasius pangasius on Fishbase.org (English)
  • Pangasius pangasius in the Red List of Threatened Species IUCN 2013.1. Posted by: Pal, M., 2009, Retrieved on 17 November 2013.
  • Siamese catfish
  • Pangasiidae
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