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Siluridae
Malayan Vampiric Sheatfish
Belodontichthys dinema
Long barbels hunting fish near riverbeds
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- Freshwater fish
- Asia (unspecified)
- Elongated
- Large
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Freshwater fish
Elongated
LargeMalayan Vampiric Sheatfish is known around Asia as a freshwater fish; It occurs in freshwater habitats, and records give a maximum length of 100 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Catfishes
- Family
- Siluridae
- Genus
- Belodontichthys
- Maximum length
- 100 cm
- Water
- Freshwater
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- Asia: Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo. Reports from the Mekong River basin are misidentifications of Belodontichthys truncatus .
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
