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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.
Entorno: milieu / zona climática / rango de profundidad / gama de distribución
Ecología
; agua dulce bentopelágico; potamodromo (Ref. 138296). Tropical
Asia: Mekong and Chao Phraya basins.
Tamaño / Peso / Edad
Madurez: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 120 cm SL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 30857)
Descripción breve
Claves de identificación | Morfología | Morfometría
Radios blandos anales: 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).
Ciclo vital y comportamiento de apareamiento
Madurez | Reproducción | Puesta | Huevos | Fecundidad | Larva
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)
Situación en la Lista Roja de la UICN (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))
Amenaza para el ser humano
Harmless
Usos humanos
Pesquerías: escaso valor comercial
Herramientas
Informes especiales
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Estimaciones basadas en modelos
Índice de diversidad filogenética (Referencia 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). |
Nivel trófico (Referencia 69278) |
3.2 ±0.47 se; based on food items. |
Vulnerabilidad pesquera (Ref. 59153) |
High to very high vulnerability (72 of 100). 🛈 |
Categoría de precios (Ref. 80766) |
Unknown.
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Nutrientes (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); |