Clarias aff. batrachus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Aqmal-Naser, Mohamad, Ali, Norsyafira Anis, Azmi, Nur Ummiliani, Fahmi-Ahmad, Muhammad, Rizal, Syed Ahmad & Ahmad, Amirrudin B., 2023, Freshwater fishes (Actinopterygii) of Kenyir Reservoir, Peninsular Malaysia: Updated checklist, taxonomic concerns and alien species, Biodiversity Data Journal 11, pp. 100337-100337 : 100337

Clarias aff. batrachus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence : catalogNumber: UMTZC7792 ; Location : locality: Mandak River ; Event : samplingProtocol: Electrofishing , Literature; Department of Fisheries (1995); year: 2019

Native status

Native species.

Conservation status

NE

Notes

The distribution of Clarias batrachus is restricted to Java, Indonesia ( Ng and Kottelat 2008). The species is widely introduced for cultivation, but originated from an Indochinese subpopulation that may represent undescribed species ( Ng and Low 2019). The previously-identified population of C. batrachus in north-eastern India is presently known as Clarias magur . Other populations were known as Clarias aff. batrachus ‘Indochina’ (from Mekong River drainage) and Clarias aff. batrachus ‘Sundaland’ (from the Malay Peninsula and Borneo) (Fig. 19 ).

Figures

Figure 19. Clarias aff. batrachus from Kenyir Reservoir.