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Silurus soldatovi Nikolskii & Soin, 1948

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This catfish is visually similar to the closely related Wels catfish, S. glanis. The fish can live up to 20 years, and can grow to about 4 metres in length and weigh 40 kilograms. Description: Dorsal soft rays (total): 6; Anal soft rays: 83 - 90. Head large and depressed; snout blunt and rounded; mouth large, upper jaw shorter than lower one and reaching backward over hind margin of eyes; maxillary barbels 1 pair reaching pectoral fin; chin barbels 2 pairs. Etymology: The specific name soldatovi: In memory of Russian ichthyologist Vladimir Konstantinovich Soldatov (1875–1941), Moscow Technical Institute of Fishing Industry and Fish Farming, preeminent authority on Amurian fishes (this catfish occurs in the Amur River of Russia and China).

Common Name:

Soldatov's catfish

Synonyms:

Silurus glanis

Family:

Siluridae

Distribution:

Asia: Heilongjiang (Amur River) China and Russia; Liaohe, China. Type locality: Amur River, Lake Kabar at Elabuga, Khabarovskyi Krai, Russia.

Size:

360cm. (12ft)

Temp:

05-25°C (37-77°F)

p.H.

6.0-7.0.

IUCN Red List

Silurus soldatovi is widespread, found within the Amur basin, Russia, and enters Jilin and Heilongjiang, China. This species' population is widespread and common but decreasing. This species faces threats overexploitation in fisheries and sports fishing. Being widespread and not thought that any global population decline is likely to meet (or be close to meeting) the threshold for Vulnerable, and therefore the species is assessed as Least Concern, (IUCN 2020).

Reference:

Bogutskaya, N.G. and A.M. Naseka, 1996. Cyclostomata and fishes of Khanka Lake drainage area (Amur river basin). An annotated check-list with comments on taxonomy and zoogeography of the region. Zool. Inst. Russ. Acad. Sci. :89 p.
Bogutskaya, N. 2020. Silurus soldatovi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020.
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. 2011. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org, version.
Liu Wei (2010). Physio-ecology of Northern Sheatfish Silurus soldatovi During Early Development (PhD thesis). Qingdao: Ocean University of China.
The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database © Christopher Scharpf.
Wikimedia Commons 2021.

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Silurus soldatovi

Silurus soldatovi
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