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Hemipimelodus borneensis (Bleeker 1851)

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Johnny Jensen's Photographic Library (1) Fishes of Mainland Southeast Asia (1)

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Description: Head about as deep as wide; rounded snout; without teeth on palate. Habitat: Occurs in large lowland rivers. Diet: Consists of bivalve mollusks, crustaceans, aquatic macrophytes and plant detritus. Fishermen catch them with trawls, seines, and traps. Etymology: The genus name Hemipimelodus: Hemi - half, referring to previous placement of H. borneensis in Pimelodus (then a catch-all genus for many catfishes). The specific name borneenis: –ensis, suffix denoting place: western Borneo, Indonesia, type locality (also occurs in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia and Viêt Nam). Remarks: On some online searches you can still find this species listed as Cephalocassis borneensis.

Common Name:

None

Synonyms:

Hemipimelodus siamensis, Pimelodus borneensis, Cephalocassis borneensis

Family:

Ariidae

Distribution:

South and southeast Asia: Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Indonesia. Type locality: Sambas, western Borneo, Indonesia.

Size:

30.0cm. (12ins)

Temp:

12-26°c (61-79°f)

p.H.

7.0-8.5.

Reference:

Marceniuk, Alexandre P.; Menezes, Naércio A. (2007). "Systematics of the family Ariidae (Ostariophysi, Siluriformes), with a redefinition of the genera" Zootaxa 1416: 1–126.
Rainboth, W.J. 1996 Fishes of the Cambodian Mekong. FAO Species Identification Field Guide for Fishery Purposes. FAO, Rome, 265 p.
The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database © Christopher Scharpf.

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