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Horabagridae (Imperial catfishes)
Etymology: Horabagrus: Named for S.L.Hora, director of Zoological Survey of India + Greek, pagros = a fish, Dentex sp. (Ref. 45335); obscurus: Name 'obscurus' from the Latin word meaning dark or cloudy, in reference to the colour pattern of the fish. Also from the English word obscure meaning cryptic or ambiguous, in allusion to the confusion between H. obscurus and the sympatric H. nigricollaris..
Eponymy: Dr Sunder Lal Hora (1896–1955) was a distinguished Indian ichthyologist and biologist who held a doctorate in science from both the Punjab University (1922) and Edinburgh University (1928), having studied for his master’s at the Government College, [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.
Entorno: milieu / zona climática / rango de profundidad / gama de distribución
Ecología
; agua dulce demersal. Tropical
Asia: India.
Tamaño / Peso / Edad
Madurez: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 40.8 cm SL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 137589)
Descripción breve
Claves de identificación | Morfología | Morfometría
Espinas dorsales (total) : 1; Radios blandos dorsales (total) : 5; Radios blandos anales: 28 - 29. This species is distinguished by the following set of characters: greenish brown ground color mottled with black and a small black humeral blotch with a yellow to white region immediately anteroventral to the blotch; adult size >250 mm SL; caudal peduncle depth 8.5-10.8% SL; eye orbital diameter 13.4-19.7% HL; pectoral spine 48.9-62.3% HL; width of pectoral girdle 72.3-76.9% HL; maxillary barbel just reaching the pectoral fin origin; total post-Weberian vertebrae modally 38 (Ref. 137589).
Body shape (shape guide): elongated.
This species inhabits rivers with fast flowing water and hard substrate (Ref. 137589).
Ciclo vital y comportamiento de apareamiento
Madurez | Reproducción | Puesta | Huevos | Fecundidad | Larva
Kumar, R.G., C. Ravi, N.P. Krishnaprasoon and V.S. Basheer, 2024. A new sympatric species of Horabagrus (Siluriformes: Horabagridae) from the Chalakkudy river basin in Kerala, India. Indian J. Fish 71(4):20-26. (Ref. 137589)
Situación en la Lista Roja de la UICN (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))
Amenaza para el ser humano
Harmless
Usos humanos
Pesquerías: sin interés
Herramientas
Informes especiales
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Estimaciones basadas en modelos
Índice de diversidad filogenética (Referencia 82804) |
PD50 = 0.5664 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high]. |
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Bayesian length-weight
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a=0.00479 (0.00190 - 0.01207), b=3.12 (2.90 - 3.34), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245). |
Nivel trófico (Referencia 69278) |
3.5 ±0.6 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives |
Resiliencia (Referencia 120179) |
Alto, población duplicada en un tiempo mínimo inferior a 15 meses (Preliminary K or Fecundity.). |
Vulnerabilidad pesquera (Ref. 59153) |
Low to moderate vulnerability (35 of 100). 🛈 |