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Bagridae (Bagrid catfishes)
Etymology: Pseudomystus: Greek, pseudes = false + Greek, mystax = whiskered, used by Belon in 1553 to describe all fishes with whiskers (Ref. 45335); bomboides: From the Latin bombus (bumblebee) and the suffix -oides (alike), an allusion to the barred colour pattern..
More on author: Kottelat.
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Freshwater; benthopelagic. Tropical
Asia: Mekong basin in Laos, Thailand and Cambodia, and southeastern Thailand.
Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 4.2 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 43281)
Short description
Identification keys | Morphology | Morphometrics
Body coloration dark greyish-brown with three pale whitish bars; a dark greyish-brown bar across caudal fin, a second one across each lobe, joined to the first one on the median rays; tip of caudal-fin lobes not produced into a filament; absence of supra-clavicular process; relatively large eyes (eye diameter 16.3-21.4 % of head length); relatively low adipose fin (adipose fin depth 4.2-6.9 %SL); hind margin of dorsal-fin spine almost smooth; relatively long maxillary barbels that extend past edge of opercle almost to beneath origin of dorsal fin (Ref. 36949). Body shallow, depth at dorsal fin origin equal to head width (Ref. 43281).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturities | Reproduction | Spawnings | Egg(s) | Fecundities | Larvae
Kottelat, M., 2000. Diagnosis of a new genus and 64 new species of fishes from Laos (Teleostei: Cyprinidae, Balitoridae, Bagridae, Syngnathidae, Chaudhuriidae and Tetraodontidae). J. South Asian Nat. Hist. 5(1):37-82. (Ref. 36949)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)
Threat to humans
Harmless
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Estimates based on models
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref.
82804): PD
50 = 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00832 (0.00384 - 0.01800), b=2.95 (2.77 - 3.13), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref.
93245).
Trophic level (Ref.
69278): 3.1 ±0.4 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Resilience (Ref.
120179): High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref.
59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
