Cryptarius
truncatus (Valenciennes, 1840) |
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| Jean-Francois
Helias (5)
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| Relevant
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Found in estuaries and
lower courses of rivers from the Chao Phrya to Sumatra and Java,
including the lower Mekong. The species can be quite abundant at
times. Feeds on fishes and crustaceans. Caught with trawls, seines,
traps and hook-and-line. Marketed fresh. The genus Cryptarius
can be distinguished by the following exclusive (1 to 5) characters:(1)
vomer arrow shaped; (2) epioccipital posterior process contacting
median crest associated with neural spine of fourth vertebra; (3)
anterior part of interopercle very long and pointed (fig. 43); (4)
anterior part of metapterygoid contacting quadrate through an indented
articulation, most of the remaining part of this bone simply contacting
the quadrate. (5) posterior portion of second basibranchial very
wide (fig. 45); (6) mesethmoid moderately thick at median portion.
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| Common
Name: |
Spoonsnouted
catfish |
| Synonyms: |
Arius truncatus, Hemipimelodus
cochlearis
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| Family: |
Ariidae
mblycipitidae |
| Distribution: |
South and southeast
Asia.: Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia and Malaysia. Type
locality: Java, Indonesia |
| Size:
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42.0cm.
TL (18ins) |
| Temp: |
26-29°c
(79-85°f ) |
| p.H. |
7.0-8.5. |
| Reference: |
Rainboth, W.J.
1996 Fishes of the Cambodian Mekong. FAO Species Identification
Field Guide for Fishery Purposes. FAO, Rome, 265 p.
Marceniuk, Alexandre P.; Menezes, Naércio A.
(2007). "Systematics of the family Ariidae (Ostariophysi, Siluriformes),
with a redefinition of the genera" Zootaxa 1416: 1–126.
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