Netuma thalassina (Rüppell, 1835) Recherche rapide

Attributs

  • DISTRIBUTION: Lien Faunafri
  • Biology : Kamukuru & Tamatamah, 2015 .
  • Colour pattern : Jayaram, 1984 | Kailola, 1999 | Seegers, 2008 .
  • Common names : Jam / Kann / Khenn / Khenn arabi / Shim (Arabic), Catfish / Giant catfish / Giant marine-catfish / Giant salmon catfish / Giant sea catfish / Khagga / Marine catfish / Salmon catfish (English), Hammassäga / Suur norjassäga (Estonian), Lohimonni (Finnish), Mâchoiron titan / Poisson-chat géant (French), Arius wielki (Polish), Bagre titanic (Portuguese), Bacoore / Funi (Somali), Bagre titan (Spanish), Fumi / Hongwe (Swahili) .
  • Condition / length-weight relationship : Al-Hassan et al., 1988 .
  • Current distribution known : known with certainity only from the Red Sea and northwestern Indian Ocean. Presence in the Mozambique Channel (Jayaram, 1984) is doubtful. A closely related form is found in the Philippines and Gulf of Thailand. The wider distribution usually given for this species is based on misidentification of similar appearing species that broadly overlap the geographic range of Netuma .
  • Distribution_references : Jayaram, 1984 | Marceniuk & Menezes, 2007 .
  • Food habits : mainly opportunistic. Feeds mainly on crabs, prawns, mantis shrimps (Squilla species) but also on fishes and molluscs .
  • Food habits_references : Al-Hassan et al., 1988 | Jayaram, 1984 | Kailola, 1999 .
  • Genetics : Betancur-R, 2009 .
  • Habitat / home range : a marine species often found in estuaries, but rarely enters freshwater; reported to occasionally ascend into fresh water; typically euryhaline (Tortonese, 1937) .
  • Habitat_references : Jayaram, 1984 | Kailola, 1999 | Marceniuk & Menezes, 2007 .
  • Morphology / anatomy : Al-Hassan et al., 1988 | Jayaram, 1984 | Kailola, 1999 | Kailola, 2004 | Marceniuk et al., 2012 | Seegers, 2008 .
  • Osteology : Al-Hassan et al., 1988 | Kailola, 2004 | Marceniuk et al., 2012 .
  • Phylogeny : Betancur-R, 2009 | Kailola, 2004 | Kailola, 2004 | Marceniuk et al., 2012 | Marceniuk et al., 2012 .
  • Reproduction : incubates eggs in the mouth. The fry continue to take refuge in the mouths of the male fish for the first two months and once they leave, the males start to eat avidly and may consume their own young .
  • Reproduction_references : Kamukuru & Tamatamah, 2015 .
  • Size : ca 1850 mm TL .
  • Types :
    • Ariodes aeneus Sauvage, 1883: 160. Type locality: Singapore ["Ile Rafflès"]. Syntypes MNHN A-5155.
    • Arius nasutus Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1840: 60. Type localities: "Côte de Malabar et Mer Rouge". Syntypes MNHN n° A.94079408 and A.9409.
    • Arius serratus Day, 1877: 462, pl. 104 (fig. 3). Type locality: Sind, Pakistan. Holotype ZSI 467.
    • Bagrus bilineatus Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1839: 434. Type localities: "Pondichery, Rangoon and Vizagapatarn". Syntype MNHN n° A.9344.
    • Bagrus carchariorhynchos Bleeker, 1846: 291. Type locality: Jakarta, Java, Indonesia. Holotype RMNH 6885.
    • Bagrus laevigatus Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1839: 439. Type locality . "Mer Rouge". Holotype MNHN n° B.710 (a possible syntype of Bagrus thalassinus Rüppell).
    • Bagrus netuma Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1839: 438, pl. 417. Type localities: "Pondichery and Burma". Syntype MNHN n° A.9345.
    • Bagrus thalassinus Rüppell, 1835: 75, 84, pl. 20, fig. 2. Type locality: " Massaua ", Ethiopia. Syntypes SMF n° 5470 (skeleton), 544 and 5414.
    • Netuma thlassina jackonensis Whitley, 1941: 12, fig. 8 (nos 1-2). Type locality: Port Jackson, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Holotype AMS I.10095; paratypes AMS I.4689.
  • Use and trade : an important food fish; marketed mostly fresh; often dried, including airbladders .