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Ketengus typus (Bigmouth sea catfish; Catfish; Soldier catfish)

Synonyms: Ktengus typus; Pimelodus pectinidens
Language: Finnish; Khmer; Malay; Mandarin Chinese

Wikipedia Abstract

Ketengus typus, the Bigmouth sea-catfish, is the only species in the sea catfish genus Ketengus (order Siluriformes). This fish is found in South and Southeast Asia in India, Andaman Islands, Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia. It is distributed in the Eastern Bay of Bengal and Malay Peninsula in nearshore coastal waters, estuaries, and lower reaches of rivers. It lives mostly in brackish waters and rarely freshwaters. K. typus feeds on invertebrates and small fishes. K. typus grows up to 25.0 centimetres TL.
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Prey / Diet

Chanos chanos (Bandang)[1]

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Attributes / relations provided by
1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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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