Wallago attu ( Bloch & Schneider, 1801 )

Çiçek, Erdoğan, Fricke, Ronald, Eagderi, Soheil, Sungur, Sevil, Coad, Brian W & Hamdard, Mohammad Hamid, 2023, Fishes of Afghanistan; a revised and updated annotated checklist, Zootaxa 5305 (1), pp. 1-69 : 41-42

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5305.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:55EB7903-BB1A-45F9-9660-16DAF957C67A

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8072405

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CA1A3C-FF82-FFA2-38E2-18B18AAE6650

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Plazi

scientific name

Wallago attu ( Bloch & Schneider, 1801 )
status

 

Wallago attu ( Bloch & Schneider, 1801) View in CoL View at ENA

[N]—Pabdah catfish

Taxonomy. Original description: Silurus attu Bloch & Schneider, 1801: 378 View in CoL , pl. 75 [Malabar, India; holotype: ZMB 8783 (dry, lost)].— Afghanistan synonyms: Silurus boalis Hamilton, 1822 View in CoL ; Silurodon hexanema Kner, 1866 View in CoL ; Wallago hexanema (Kner, 1866) View in CoL ; Silurus (Callichrus) macrostomus Swainson, 1839 View in CoL ; Silurus muelleri Bleeker, 1846 View in CoL ; Wallago russellii Bleeker, 1853 View in CoL ; Wallago attu valeya Deraniyagala, 1953 View in CoL ; Silurus wallagoo Valenciennes, 1840 View in CoL .—Revisions: Jayaram (2006: 112).—Illustration: Kottelat (2001: fig. 357).

Status in Afghanistan. First listed by Coad (1981: 15; 2014: 294; 2015: 229); confirmed by ( Mirza 2003; Hossain et al. 2008).—Afghanistan materials: None.

Distribution and habitat. Distribution in Afghanistan: Kabul River.—General distribution: South Asia and Southeast Asia: Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Yunnan / China, Thailand, Indonesia and East Indies.—Habitat: This species inhabits freshwater and tidal waters in a variety of habitats, including large rivers, lakes, tanks, channels, and reservoirs. It is one of the largest, most voracious, and most predatory of the local catfish, which thrives well in rivers and tanks, especially in jheels with grassy margins. It mostly hides under holes in riverbanks and canals, and it prefers muddy tanks subject to periodic flooding from a nullah or river. It is rather sluggish and stays at the bottom of water in search of food. Freshwater.

Economic importance. Commercially important.

Conservation. Conservation status in Afghanistan: Unknown.—IUCN: VU ( Ng et al. 2019).—Threats: CLI, CON, FIT, TOU, EUT.—High sensitivity to human activities.—Keystone species.—Decline status: Decreasing.— Moderate priority for conservation action.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Siluriformes

Family

Siluridae

Genus

Wallago

Loc

Wallago attu ( Bloch & Schneider, 1801 )

Çiçek, Erdoğan, Fricke, Ronald, Eagderi, Soheil, Sungur, Sevil, Coad, Brian W & Hamdard, Mohammad Hamid 2023
2023
Loc

Wallago attu valeya

Deraniyagala 1953
1953
Loc

Silurodon hexanema

Kner 1866
1866
Loc

Wallago russellii

Bleeker 1853
1853
Loc

Silurus muelleri

Bleeker 1846
1846
Loc

Silurus wallagoo

Valenciennes 1840
1840
Loc

Silurus (Callichrus) macrostomus

Swainson 1839
1839
Loc

Silurus boalis

Hamilton 1822
1822
Loc

Silurus attu

Bloch & Schneider 1801: 378
1801
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