Arius gagora: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Siluriformes
- Family
- Ariidae
- Genus
- Arius
- Species
- Arius gagora
- Scientific Name
- Arius gagora
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Gagora catfish
The Gagora catfish (Arius gagora) is a species of sea catfish in the family Ariidae. It was described by Francis Buchanan-Hamilton in 1822, originally under the genus Pimelodus. It is a migratory species found in the tropical marine, brackish and freshwater of Bangladesh, Myanmar, and India. It reaches a maximum standard length of 91.4 cm (3 ft).
The Gagora catfish is of commercial importance as a food fish, but over-fishing has led to a population decline in the past two decades. Due to the decline, the IUCN redlist has listed the species as Near Threatened since 1st October 2009.
...Arius gagora in languages:
- Czech
- křížovec gagora
Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Arius acutirostris
- Arius africanus
- Arius arenarius
- Arius arius
- Arius brunellii
- Arius dispar
- Arius festinus
- Arius gagora
- Arius gigas
- Arius jella
- Arius leptonotacanthus
- Arius macronotacanthus
- Arius maculatus
- Arius madagascariensis
- Arius malabaricus
- Arius manillensis
- Arius microcephalus
- Arius nenga
- Arius platystomus
- Arius subrostratus
- Arius sumatranus
- Arius uncinatus
- Arius utik
- Arius venosus