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The Siamese tigerfish (Datnioides pulcher), also known as the Siamese tiger perch, is a species of ray-finned fish belonging to the family Lobotidae, the tripletails and tiger perches. This fish is endemic to Indochina and is assessed as Critically Endangered by the IUCN .
Datnioides was first proposed as a genus in 1853 by the Dutch physician, herpetologist and ichthyologist Pieter Bleeker, in 1876 Bleeker designated Datnoides polota, [1] which was the same as Coius polota that Francis Hamilton had described in 1822 from the Ganges, as its type species. [2]
Coius binotatus J. E. Gray, 1834 Lobotes hexazona Bleeker , 1850 Datnioides polota , the silver tigerfish , silver tiger perch , barred tigerfish , four-banded tripletail , four-banded tigerfish or four-barred tigerfish , is a species of ray-finned fish belonging to the family Lobotidae , the tripletails and tiger perches.
Datnioides undecimradiatus was first formally described as Coius undecimradiatus in 1994 by the ichthyologists Tyson R. Roberts and Maurice Kottelat with its type locality given as the Mekong River, a few kilometres downstream from the Lee Pee (or Khone) waterfalls in Laos. [3]
Datnioides microlepis, also known as the Indonesian tiger perch, Indo datmoid, Indonesian tigerfish, or finescale tigerfish, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Lobotidae, the tripletails and tiger perches. This species is endemic to the islands of Sumatra and Kalimantan in Indonesia. [2]
Several species of Coius (or Datnioides, depending on the taxonomic authority) have been referred to as "tigerfish", particularly in fishkeeping books and magazines. They are large, wide-bodied fish whose flanks are covered by vivid black stripes.
Datnioides campbelli, the New Guinea tiger perch, New Guinea tigerfish or Campbell's tigerfish, is a species of ray-finned fish belonging to the family Lobotidae. This species is found in both fresh and brackish waters in rivers, swamps and tidal creeks in southern New Guinea .
Coius trivittatus Hamilton, 1822 ... crescent perch, spiky trumpeter, thornfish or tiger perch, is a species of ray ... The young fish between standard lengths ...