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Genus of fishes From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ketengus typus, the bigmouth sea-catfish, is the only species in the sea catfish genus Ketengus (order Siluriformes).[1][2]
Ketengus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Siluriformes |
Family: | Ariidae |
Genus: | Ketengus Bleeker, 1847 |
Species: | K. typus |
Binomial name | |
Ketengus typus Bleeker, 1847 | |
Synonyms | |
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This fish is found in South and Southeast Asia in India, Andaman Islands, Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia.[1] It is distributed in the Eastern Bay of Bengal and Malay Peninsula in nearshore coastal waters, estuaries, and lower reaches of rivers.[2] It lives mostly in brackish waters and rarely freshwaters.[1]
Katengus typus feeds on scale of other fishes, invertebrates and small fishes.[3] K. typus grows up to 25.0 centimetres TL.[3]
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