Animalia > Chordata > Siluriformes > Plotosidae > Plotosus > Plotosus canius

Plotosus canius (Black-tip catfish; Canine catfish-eel; Eel catfish; Gray eel catfish; Gray eel-catfish; Grey catfish-eel; Hamilton's eel catfish; Striped catfish eel; Barbel-eel catfish)

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Language: Agutaynen; Bengali; Bikol; Bolinao; Burmese; Cebuano; Chavacano; Davawenyo; French; Hiligaynon; Ilokano; Javanese; Kagayanen; Kannada; Khmer; Kuyunon; Laotian; Malay; Malayalam; Mandarin Chinese; Marathi; Oriya; Polish; Sinhalese; Spanish; Tagalog; Tamil; Telugu; Thai; Vietnamese; Waray-waray

Wikipedia Abstract

Plotosus canius is a species of eeltail catfishes, in the genus Plotosus, native to the Indian Ocean, the western Pacific Ocean and New Guinea.
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Attributes

Migration [1]  Amphidromous

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Can Gio Mangrove Biosphere Reserve 123722 Viet Nam  
Sunderban National Park 261613 India  

Prey / Diet

Phascolosoma arcuatum[2]
Tegillarca granosa[2]
Vignadula mangle[2]

Predators

Mycteria cinerea (Milky Stork)[3]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Anchylodiscus liewi[4]
Anchylodiscus malayensis[4]
Cleaveius secundus[4]
Heterosentis plotosi[4]
Heterosentis septacanthus[4]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2FEEDING BIOLOGY OF EEL CATFISH PLOTOSUS CANIUS HAMILTON IN A MALAYSIAN MANGROVE ESTUARY AND MUDFLAT, Leh, M. U. C.; A. Sasekumar; L.–L. Chew; THE RAFFLES BULLETIN OF ZOOLOGY 2012 60(2): 551–557
♦ 3del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 4Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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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