Bagarius yarrelli

Bagarius yarrelli és una espècie de peix de la família dels sisòrids i de l'ordre dels siluriformes.

Morfologia Els mascles poden assolir 200 cm de longitud total. Nombre de vèrtebres: 40-45.FishBase Kottelat, M., A.J. Whitten, S.N. Kartikasari i S. Wirjoatmodjo, 1993. Freshwater fishes of Western Indonesia and Sulawesi. Periplus Editions, Hong Kong. 221 p.

Alimentació Menja principalment gambes, tot i que també menja peixets i insectes aquàtics.

Hàbitat És un peix d'aigua dolça i de clima tropical.

Distribució geogràfica Es troba a Àsia: conques dels rius Indus i Ganges, conca del riu Mekong, la major part de l'Índia meridional a l'est dels Ghats OccidentalsDahanukar, N., R. Raut i A. Bhat, 2004. Distribution, endemism and threat status of freshwater fishes in the Western Ghats of India. J. Biogeogr 31: 123-136.Chandrashekhariah, H.N., M.F. Rahman i S. Lakshmi Raghavan, 2000 Status of fish fauna in Karnataka. p. 98-135. A: Ponniah, A.G. i A. Gopalakrishnan (eds.). Endemic Fish Diversity of Western Ghats. NBFGR-NATP Publication. National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources, Lucknow, U.P., Índia. 1, 347 p. i des de la conca del riu Xe Bangfai (Laos)Kottelat, M., 1998. Fishes of the Nam Theun and Xe Bangfai basins, Laos, with diagnoses of twenty-two new species (Teleostei: Cyprinidae, Balitoridae, Cobitidae, Coiidae and Odontobutidae). Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwat. 9(1):1-128.Baird, I.G., V. Inthaphaisy, P. Kisouvannalath, B. Phylavanh i B. Mounsouphom, 1999. The fishes of southern Lao. Lao Community Fisheries and Dolphin Protection Project. Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Lao PDR.161 p. fins a Indonèsia.Roberts, T.R., 1989. The freshwater fishes of Western Borneo (Kalimantan Barat, Indonesia). Mem. Calif. Acad. Sci. 14:210 p.Kottelat, M. i E. Widjanarti, 2005. The fishes of Danau Sentarum National Park and the Kapuas Lakes area, Kalimantan Barat, Indonesia. Raffles Bull. Zool. Supplement (13):139-173.Chu, X. i T. Mo, 1999. Sisoridae. p. 114-181. A: X.-L. Chu, B.-S. Cheng i D.-Y. Dai (Eds). Faunica Sinica. Osteichthyes. Siluriformes. Science Press, Beijing. i-vii + 1-230.Kottelat, M., 2001. Fishes of Laos. WHT Publications Ltd., Colombo 5, Sri Lanka. 198 p.Monkolprasit, S., S. Sontirat, S. Vimollohakarn i T. Songsirikul, 1997. Checklist of Fishes in Thailand. Office of Environmental Policy and Planning, Bangkok, Tailàndia. 353 p.Talwar, P.K. i A.G. Jhingran, 1991. Inland fishes of India and adjacent countries. Volum 2. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam.Vidthayanon, C., J. Karnasuta i J. Nabhitabhata, 1997. Diversity of freshwater fishes in Thailand. Office of Environmental Policy and Planning, Bangkok. 102 p.

Ús comercial És venut fresc als mercats locals.Rainboth, W.J., 1996. Fishes of the Cambodian Mekong. FAO Species Identification Field Guide for Fishery Purposes. FAO, Roma, 265 p.

Referències

Bibliografia Anònim, 2001. Fish collection database of the National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution). Smithsonian Institution - Division of Fishes. Anònim, 2002. Fish collection database of the American Museum of Natural History. American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West, NY 10024-5192, Estats Units.

Riede, K., 2004. Global register of migratory species - from global to regional scales. Final Report of the R&D-Projekt 808 05 081. Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, Bonn, Alemanya. 329 p. Roberts, T. R., 1983: Revision of the south and southeast Asian sisorid catfish genus Bagarius, with description of a new species from the Mekong. Copeia 1983 (núm. 2): 435-445. Roberts, T.R., 1993. Artisanal fisheries and fish ecology below the great waterfalls of the Mekong River in southern Laos. Nat. Hist. Bull. Siam Soc. 41:31-62. Roberts, T.R. i I.G. Baird, 1995. Rapid assessment of fish and fisheries for the Xe Nam Noy-Xe Pian hydroscheme in Southern Lao PDR. The Wildlife Conservation Society, Vientiane, Lao PDR. 37 p. Singhanouvong, D., C. Soulignavong, K. Vonghachak, B. Saadsy i T.J. Warren, 1996. The main dry-season fish migrations of the Mekong mainstream at Hat Village, Muang Khong District, Hee Village, Muang Mouan District and Hatsalao Village, Paxse. Indigenous Fishery Develoment Project, Fisheries Ecology Technical Report núm. 3. Lao People's Democratic Republic. 130 p. Singhanouvong, D., C. Soulignavong, K. Vonghachak, B. Saadsy i T.J. Warren, 1996. The main wet-season migration through Hoo Som Yai, a steep-gradient channel at the great fault line on the Mekong River, Champassack Province, Southern Lao PDR. Indigenous Fishery Development Project, Fisheries Ecology Technical Report Núm. 4. Technical Section, Dept. of Livestock-Fisheries, Ministry of Agriculture-Forestry, Lao People's Democratic Republic. 115 p.

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