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Bagarius yarrelli (Goonch)

Synonyms: Bagarius lica; Bagarius nieuwenhuisii; Bagarius yarrellii; Bagrus yarrelli; Pimelodus carnaticus (heterotypic)
Language: Chinese; Finnish; Kannada; Khmer; Laotian; Mandarin Chinese

Wikipedia Abstract

Bagarius yarrelli, known as the giant devil catfish or goonch, is a very large species of catfish in the genus Bagarius found in rivers in South Asia. It is possibly also found in Southeast Asia, but this may involve a separate species.
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Attributes

Migration [1]  Potamodromous

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Betung Kerihun National Park II 1945086 Kalimantan, Indonesia  
Xishuangbanna Nature Reserve V 567531 Yunnan, China  

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Gangesia bengalensis[2]
Gephyrolina paragonopora[2]
Proteocephalus vitellaris[2]
Senga lucknowensis[2]

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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
♦ 2Gibson, 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