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Pangasiidae (Shark catfishes)
Etymology: Pangasius: The Vietnamese name of a fish (Ref. 45335).
Eponymy: Marie Firmin Bocourt (1819–1904) was a French zoologist and artist. [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.
More on author: Sauvage.
Environnement : milieu / zone climatique / profondeur / gamme de distribution
Écologie
; eau douce benthopélagique; potamodrome (Ref. 138296). Tropical
Asia: Mekong and Chao Phraya basins.
Taille / Poids / Âge
Maturité: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 120 cm SL mâle / non sexé; (Ref. 30857)
Description synthétique
Clés d'identification | Morphologie | Morphométrie
Rayons mous anaux: 31 - 35. Body stout and heavy, head broader than long; blue-black dorsum; blunt snout with broad white band on muzzle; single large patch of vomerine teeth with separate patch of palatine teeth on each side (Ref. 12693). Rounded head and blunt rounded snout (Ref. 43281).
Body shape (shape guide): fusiform / normal.
Facultative air-breathing (Ref. 126274); Known from large rivers (Ref. 12693). Found in rapids and also in deeper slower reaches (Ref. 37771). Adults enter flooded forest (Ref. 9497). They feed on plants (Ref. 9497). Spawns at the onset of flood season and the young are first seen in June, averaging about 5 cm by mid-June. Marketed fresh (Ref. 12693).
Cycle de vie et comportement reproducteur
Maturité | Reproduction | Frai | Œufs | Fécondité | Larves
Roberts, T.R. and C. Vidthayanon, 1991. Systematic revision of the Asian catfish family Pangasiidae, with biological observations and descriptions of three new species. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 143:97-144. (Ref. 7432)
Statut dans la liste rouge de l'IUCN (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))
Menace pour l'homme
Harmless
Utilisations par l'homme
Pêcheries: intérêt commercial mineur
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Estimations basées sur des modèles
Indice de diversité phylogénétique (Réf. 82804) |
PD50 = 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high]. |
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Bayesian length-weight
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a=0.01000 (0.00488 - 0.02049), b=3.00 (2.81 - 3.19), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species & (Sub)family-body (Ref. 93245). |
Niveau trophique (Réf. 69278) |
3.2 ±0.47 se; based on food items. |
Vulnérabilité de la pêche (Ref. 59153) |
High to very high vulnerability (72 of 100). 🛈 |
Catégorie de prix (Ref. 80766) |
Unknown.
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Nutriments (Ref. 124155) |
Calcium = 12.7 [7.0, 42.3] mg/100g; Iron = 0.501 [0.193, 1.402] mg/100g; Protein = 15.9 [14.4, 17.4] %; Omega3 = 0.397 [0.149, 1.043] g/100g; Selenium = 115 [48, 249] μg/100g; VitaminA = 29.5 [7.2, 113.1] μg/100g; Zinc = 2.3 [0.8, 4.0] mg/100g (wet weight); |