Pangasius
bocourti Sauvage, 1880
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| Relevant
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Anal soft rays: 31 -
35. Body stout and heavy, head broader than long; blue-black dorsum;
blunt snout with broad white band on muzzle; single large patch
of vomerine teeth with separate patch of palatine teeth on each
side. Rounded head and blunt rounded snout. Known
from large rivers and also found in rapids and in deeper slower
reaches. Enters flooded forest and feeds on plants. Spawns at
the onset of flood season and the young are first seen in June,
averaging about 5 cm by mid-June. This is mainly the fish sold
in U.K. supermarkets (rarely also as Pangasianodon
hypophthalmus) as Vietnamese river
cobbler, sold in place of the more expensive cod or haddock. |
| Common
Name: |
Basa fish |
| Synonyms: |
Pangasius altifrons
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| Family: |
Pangasiidaelycipitidae |
| Distribution: |
Asia:
Mekong and Chao Phraya River basins. Type locality:
Phnom-Penh (Cambodia). |
| Size:
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120cm.
(4ft.0ins) |
| Temp: |
22
-28°C (71 -83°F) |
| p.H. |
6.5
-7.5. |
| Reference: |
Froese, R. and
D. Pauly. Editors. 2006.FishBase.
World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org, version
(02/2010).
Ferraris, C.J. Jr., 2007. Checklist of catfishes,
recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue
of siluriform primary types. Zootaxa 1418:1-628. |
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Family:
Pangasiidae
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