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Mystus gulio, the Long Whiskers Catfish, is a species of catfish of the family Bagridae. The generic name is probably derived from the Latin "mystax", meaning "moustache", due to the long barbels. It is found in India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal and Vietnam. [2] It is primarily a brackish water fish that enters and lives in fresh water. [3]
In fish anatomy and turtle anatomy, a barbel is a slender, whiskerlike sensory organ near the mouth (sometimes called whiskers or tendrils). Fish that have barbels include the catfish , the carp , the goatfish , the hagfish , the sturgeon , the zebrafish , the black dragonfish and some species of shark such as the sawshark .
Catfish (or catfishes; order Siluriformes / s ɪ ˈ lj ʊər ɪ f ɔːr m iː z / or Nematognathi) are a diverse group of ray-finned fish.Named for their prominent barbels, which resemble a cat's whiskers, catfish range in size and behavior from the three largest species alive, the Mekong giant catfish from Southeast Asia, the wels catfish of Eurasia, and the piraíba of South America, to ...
The low-eye catfish (previously family Hypophthalmidae), and thus the genus Hypophthalmus, which contains four species, was reclassified with the pimelodids. [ 3 ] This family previously included fish that are now classified under Pseudopimelodidae (previously subfamily Pseudopimelodinae) and Heptapteridae (previously subfamily Rhamdiinae). [ 3 ]
The redtail catfish (Phractocephalus hemioliopterus), is a large species of South American pimelodid (long-whiskered) catfish. It is known in Venezuelan Spanish as cajaro ; in Guyana , it is known as a banana catfish , and in Brazil it is known as pirarara , [ 3 ] a fusion of words from the indigenous Tupi language : pirá and arara . [ 4 ]
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Oxydoras niger, the ripsaw catfish or cuiu cuiu, is a species of thorny catfish native to the Amazon, Essequibo and São Francisco basins in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru and Venezuela. It is the largest member of the Dorididae family. This species grows to a length of 100 centimetres (39 in) SL and weights up to 13 kilograms ...