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Siluridae

3 species · Animals

Animalia › Chordata › › Siluriformes › Siluridae

This is a detailed description of the wels catfish Silurus glanis, covering its anatomy, behaviour, reproduction, distribution and use by humans.

Silurus asotus is a scaleless nocturnal freshwater catfish from Eastern Asia with distinctive barbels and spring spawning.

Wallago attu is a disjunctly distributed South/Southeast Asian freshwater predatory catfish eaten as food.

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