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It consists of catfish served with traditional sambal chili paste, often served with fried tempeh and/or tofu and steamed rice. It is a popular Javanese dish widely distributed in Indonesian cities, especially in Java. However, it is often associated with Lamongan town, west of Surabaya in East Java, as a majority of pecel lele sellers hail ...
Basa (Pangasius bocourti) is a species of catfish in the family Pangasiidae. Basa are native to the Mekong and Chao Phraya basins in Mainland Southeast Asia. [2] These fish are important as a food source, and also on the international market. They are often labelled in North America and Australia as "basa fish", "swai", [3] or "bocourti". [4]
Pseudopangasius Bleeker, 1862. Neopangasius Popta, 1904. Sinopangasius Chang & Wu, 1965. Pangasius is a genus of medium-large to very large shark catfishes native to fresh water in South and Southeast Asia. The term "pangasius" is sometimes used to specifically refer to the commercially important basa fish, P. bocourti.
Acrochordonichthys is characterized by a highly rugose skin with tubercles arranged in longitudinal rows along the side of the body, the presence of a long, low adipose fin, and a truncate caudal fin. [2] The tubercles on Acrochordonichthys may become either greatly hypertrophied or greatly reduced at different stages of the moulting cycle ...
Wallago attu. Wallago attu, the Sareng catfish is a freshwater catfish of the family Siluridae, native to South and Southeast Asia. W. attu is found in large rivers and lakes in two geographically disconnected regions (disjunct distribution), with one population living over much of the Indian Subcontinent and the other in parts of Southeast Asia.
Two species in this genus are recognized: [1] Pangasianodon gigas Chevey, 1931 (Mekong giant catfish); Pangasianodon hypophthalmus (Sauvage, 1878) (iridescent shark); Despite local protection and quite widespread awareness of the giant catfish and its critically endangered status, the species is gravely threatened by the build-out of hydroelectric dams on the Mekong River and its tributaries ...
Genus: Acrochordonichthys. Species: A. chamaeleon. Binomial name. Acrochordonichthys chamaeleon. (Vaillant, 1902) Acrochordonichthys chamaeleon is a species of catfish of the family Akysidae. This species is endemic to Indonesia and is only known from the Kapuas River drainage, West Kalimantan (Borneo). [1][2]
Tachysurus crossocheilus (Bleeker, 1846) The roughback sea catfish, Plicofollis tonggol, is a species of sea catfish [2] known as manyung in Indonesia [3] and arahan in the Philippines, [4] [5] where it is regarded important in the fishing industry. As food, roughback sea catfish are sun-dried and salted before actual trade and consumption.