FB-69864 http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=69864 Animalia Chordata Teleostei Aulopiformes Synodontidae Harpadon Harpadon nudus Ganga & Thomas, 2016 Bagarius bagarius (non Hamilton, 1822) 2022-11-22 2022-11-22 Suvatti, C.0 Fishes of Thailand. Royal Institute of Thailand, Bangkok. 379 p. (Ref. 1632) Overseas Technical Cooperation Agency0 Sambor Project Report. Lower Mekong River Basin. vol. 6. Fishery. Supplementary Material to Volume 1. Overseas Technical Cooperation Agency, Japan. (Ref. 3902) Taki, Y.0 Fishes of the Lao Mekong Basin. United States Agency for International Development Mission to Laos Agriculture Division. 232 p. (Ref. 4792) Sidthimunka, A.0 A report on the fisheries survey of the Mekong River in the vicinity of the Pa Mong Dam site. Inland Fisheries Division, Department of Fisheries, Bangkok, Thailand. 75 p. (Ref. 9648) Rainboth, W.J.0 Fishes of the Cambodian Mekong. FAO species identification field guide for fishery purposes. FAO, Rome, 265 p. (Ref. 12693) Taki, Y.0 An analytical study of the fish fauna of the Mekong basin as a biological production system in nature. Research Institute of Evolutionary Biology Special Publications no. 1,77 p. Tokyo, Japan. (Ref. 12975) Ng, H.H. and M. Kottelat0 Description of Bagarius vegrandis, a new species of sisorid catfish from Indochina (Actinopterygii: Siluriformes), with notes on the identity of Bagarius bagarius. Zootaxa 4926(1):134-146. (Ref. 123776) FB-GeneralDescr-69874 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 2022-11-28 00:00:00 2022-12-01 00:00:00 Biology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=69874 Adults inhabit rapid and rocky pools of large and medium-sized rivers. Important as a food fish, but the meat spoils rapidly and can cause illness (Ref, 12693). Ng, H.H. and M. Kottelat 2021 Description of Bagarius vegrandis, a new species of sisorid catfish from Indochina (Actinopterygii: Siluriformes), with notes on the identity of Bagarius bagarius. Zootaxa 4926(1):134-146. (Ref. 123776) FB-DiagnosticDescr-69874 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 2022-11-28 00:00:00 2022-11-28 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=69874 This species is distinguished from all its congeners by the following characters: a small maximum body size (to 22.0 cm SL (vs. 52.0-140.0 cm SL) and the adipose-fin origin markedly posterior to the anal-fin origin (vs. at vertical through or very slightly posterior to it); with an ovoid unculiferous plaques on dorsal surface of head; lateral margin of frontal not significantly deflected dorsally; eye diameter 11-15% HL; interorbital distance 23-28% HL; head width 18.3-22.3% SL; head depth 11.1-14.1% SL; filamentous extensions to first pectoral-fin element reaching to anus; dorsal spine width 10.6-13.9 times in its length; body depth at anus 8.7-12.0% SL; neural spines of the 4-6 vertebrae immediately anterior to adipose fin distally flattened but not forming series of prominent bumps along dorsal midline; length of adipose-fin base 10.8-13.0% SL; caudal-peduncle length 19.0-22.4% SL; caudal-peduncle depth 3.2-4.2% SL; preanal vertebrae 19-20 and total 39-40 vertebrae (Ref. 123776). Ng, H.H. and M. Kottelat 2021 Description of Bagarius vegrandis, a new species of sisorid catfish from Indochina (Actinopterygii: Siluriformes), with notes on the identity of Bagarius bagarius. Zootaxa 4926(1):134-146. (Ref. 123776) FB-Morphology-69874 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 2022-11-28 00:00:00 2022-11-28 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=69874 Vertebrae: 39 - 40 Ng, H.H. and M. Kottelat 2021 Description of Bagarius vegrandis, a new species of sisorid catfish from Indochina (Actinopterygii: Siluriformes), with notes on the identity of Bagarius bagarius. Zootaxa 4926(1):134-146. (Ref. 123776) FB-Distribution-69874 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 2022-11-28 00:00:00 2025-11-05 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=69874 Asia: Chao Phraya and Mekong River drainages in Thailand, Laos and Cambodia, possible in Vietnam. Ng, H.H. and M. Kottelat 2021 Description of Bagarius vegrandis, a new species of sisorid catfish from Indochina (Actinopterygii: Siluriformes), with notes on the identity of Bagarius bagarius. Zootaxa 4926(1):134-146. (Ref. 123776) FB-Size-69874 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 2022-11-28 00:00:00 2022-12-01 00:00:00 Max. size http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=69874 22.0 cm SL (male/unsexed; (Ref. 123776)) Ng, H.H. and M. Kottelat 2021 Description of Bagarius vegrandis, a new species of sisorid catfish from Indochina (Actinopterygii: Siluriformes), with notes on the identity of Bagarius bagarius. Zootaxa 4926(1):134-146. (Ref. 123776) FB-Threats-2 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Belen Acosta 1990-10-18 00:00:00 2024-03-07 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2 Least Concern (LC) , IUCN Grouper and Wrasse Specialist Group IUCN 2006 2006 IUCN red list of threatened species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded July 2006. FB-Habitat-69874 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 2022-11-28 00:00:00 2022-12-01 00:00:00 Environment http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=69874 benthopelagic; freshwater