Chaca: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Siluriformes
- Family
- Chacidae
- Genus
- Chaca
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Chaca
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Chaca (fish)
Chaca is the only genus in the catfish family Chacidae. These fish are commonly known as squarehead catfishes, frogmouth catfishes, or angler catfishes. These unusual fish have a sedentary lifestyle and spend much of their time motionless.
The name Chaca is because, when removed from the water, they will rapidly repeat the sound "chaca". Only C. chaca makes these sounds; the other species do not.
...Chaca in languages:
- Chinese
- 連尾鮡屬
- Czech
- chaka
Images from inaturalist.org observations:
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