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Scientific Name: Batrachocephalus mino (Hamilton, 1822)
English Name: Beardless sea catfish
Local/Bangla Name: Katabukha (কাটা বুখা)
Photo: Hamid Badar Osmany(FishBase)
Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Family: Ariidae
Description:
The fish has a broad and depressed head with an obtuse snout, and a prominent lower jaw. The head shield and the basal bone of the dorsal fin are granular, and there is a shallow median groove on the head. The occipital process is slightly longer than broad at the base. A pair of small mandibular barbels are present, and the gill membranes are united to each other and with the isthmus. The teeth are obtusely conical, arranged in a crescentic band on the jaws, and in small, oval, widely separated patches on the palate. The eyes have a free orbital margin, and both the dorsal and pectoral spines are almost equal in size and denticulated on both edges.
Habitat & Distribution in Bangladesh:
Coast waters, estuaries and tidal rivers
Environment:
Marine, Brackish (Demersal)
Main References:
Hussain MM (1970) The Marine and Estuarine Fishes of North East part of the Bay of Bengal. Scientific Researches. East Regional Laboratories, Dhaka. 52.
Other References:
Rahman AKA, Kabir SMH, Ahmad M, Ahmed ATA, Ahmed ZU, Begum ZNT, Hassan MA, Khondoker M (2009) Encyclopedia of flora and fauna of Bangladesh, Vol. 24. Marine Fishes. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 485 p.
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