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Clarias (walking catfishes)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Clarias is a genus of catfishes (order Siluriformes) of the family Clariidae, the airbreathing catfishes. The name is derived from the Greek chlaros, which means lively, in reference to the ability of the fish to live for a long time out of water.
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Species

Clarias abbreviatus
Clarias agboyiensis (Catfish) (Attributes)
Clarias albopunctatus (Walking catfish) (Attributes)
Clarias alluaudi (Alluaud's catfish)
Clarias anfractus
Clarias angolensis (Black walking catfish)
Clarias anguillaris (Mudfish) (Attributes)
Clarias batrachus (Walking catfish) (Attributes)
Clarias batu (Critically Endangered)
Clarias brachysoma (Walking catfish)
Clarias buettikoferi (Walking catfish)
Clarias buthupogon (Walking catfish) (Attributes)
Clarias camerunensis (Walking catfish)
Clarias cataractus (Walking catfish)
Clarias cavernicola (Cave Catfish) (Critically Endangered)
Clarias dayi (Malabar clariid)
Clarias dhonti (Catfish)
Clarias dumerilii (Catfish)
Clarias dussumieri (Valenciennes clariid)
Clarias ebriensis (Walking catfish) (Attributes)
Clarias engelseni (Walking catfish)
Clarias fuscus (Whitespotted freshwater catfish)
Clarias gabonensis (Walking catfish)
Clarias gariepinus (Sharptoothed catfish) (Attributes)
Clarias gracilentus
Clarias hilli (Walking catfish)
Clarias insolitus
Clarias intermedius
Clarias jaensis (Walking catfish)
Clarias kapuasensis (Endangered)
Clarias laeviceps (Walking catfish) (Vulnerable)
Clarias lamottei (Walking catfish) (Vulnerable)
Clarias leiacanthus (Walking catfish)
Clarias liocephalus (Smoothhead catfish)
Clarias longior (Walking catfish)
Clarias maclareni (Walking catfish) (Critically Endangered)
Clarias macrocephalus (Nigerian clarias) (Attributes)
Clarias macromystax (Walking catfish) (Attributes)
Clarias magony
Clarias magur (Wagur) (Endangered)
Clarias meladerma (Blackskin catfish)
Clarias microspilus (Endangered)
Clarias microstomus
Clarias monsembulai
Clarias nebulosus
Clarias ngamensis (Blunttooth catfish) (Attributes)
Clarias nieuhofii (Harmouth)
Clarias nigricans
Clarias nigromarmoratus (Walking catfish)
Clarias olivaceus
Clarias pachynema (Walking catfish)
Clarias planiceps
Clarias platycephalus (Walking catfish)
Clarias pseudoleiacanthus
Clarias pseudonieuhofii (Endangered)
Clarias salae (Walking catfish)
Clarias serniosus
Clarias stappersii (Blotched catfish)
Clarias submarginatus (Blotched catfish) (Vulnerable)
Clarias sulcatus (Critically Endangered)
Clarias teijsmanni
Clarias tenuis
Clarias theodorae (Snake catfish)
Clarias werneri (Werner's catfish)

External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0