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Akysis hendricksoni Alfred, 1961

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Zhou Hang (1) Johnny Jensen's Photographic Library (1) Adrian Taylor (2)

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Description: Dorsal soft rays (total): 6 - 7; Anal soft rays: 8 - 10; Vertebrae: 31 - 34. Distinguished from all its congeners by the following combination of characters: presence of 4-6 serrae on posterior edge of pectoral spine; head length 17.7-26.5% SL; head width 25.4-28.7% SL; body depth at anus 13.0-17.0% SL; depth of caudal peduncle 8.1-10.1% SL; interorbital distance 43-64% HL; length of nasal barbel 55-79% HL; length of maxillary barbel 102-167% HL; and caudal fin deeply emarginate. Aquarium Care: Akysis are easy to keep for any decent fishkeeper. You can keep in small tanks (30cm wide x 20cm high x 30cm deep) with a sand bottom, small pipes, and caves. They will either bury themselves in the sand or hide in caves and pipes. They are not usually active during the day but will spring to action and eat voraciously and crazily if food is put in the tank. Diet: They will eat bloodworm, chopped earthworms, whiteworm, daphnia, and sinking pellets (although they seem to prefer live or frozen food). Etymology: The genus name Akysis: A = without; kysis = bladder, in reference to the lack of a swimbladder. The specific name hendricksoni: In honour John R. Hendrickson (1921-2002), Vice-Chancellor of the East-West Center, University of Hawaii, who was Alfred’s first teacher in ichthyology; he also helped collect type.

Common Name:

Hendrickson's Catfish

Synonyms:

None

Family:

Akysidae

Distribution:

Asia: Sungai Golok, Sungai, Terengganu, Sabak Bernam, and Endau basins, peninsular Malaysia and Thailand. Type locality: Terengganu River at Kuala Brang, Terengganu, Malaya.

Size:

5.0cm (2ins)

Temp:

18-22°C (63-71°F)

p.H.

6.5-7.5.

Reference:

Ferraris, C.J. Jr., 2007. Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types. Zootaxa 1418:1-628.
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2019. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org, ( 12/2019 ).
Ng, H.H. and M. Kottelat, 1998. The catfish genus Akysis Bleeker (Teleostei: Akysidae) in Indochina, with descriptions of six new species. J. Nat. Hist. 32:1057-1097.
The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database © Christopher Scharpf.

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Akysis hendricksoni

Akysis hendricksoni
Male

Akysis hendricksoni
Female

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