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Wallago attu

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Wallago attu (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) [N]—Pabdah catfish

Taxonomy. Original description: Silurus attu Bloch & Schneider, 1801: 378, pl. 75 [Malabar, India; holotype: ZMB 8783 (dry, lost)].— Afghanistan synonyms: Silurus boalis Hamilton, 1822; Silurodon hexanema Kner, 1866; Wallago hexanema (Kner, 1866); Silurus (Callichrus) macrostomus Swainson, 1839; Silurus muelleri Bleeker, 1846; Wallago russellii Bleeker, 1853; Wallago attu valeya Deraniyagala, 1953; Silurus wallagoo Valenciennes, 1840.—Revisions: Jayaram (2006: 112).—Illustration: Kottelat (2001: fig. 357).

Status in Afghanistan. First listed by Coad (1981: 15; 2014: 294; 2015: 229); confirmed by (Mirza 2003; Hossain et al. 2008).—Afghanistan materials: None.

Distribution and habitat. Distribution in Afghanistan: Kabul River.—General distribution: South Asia and Southeast Asia: Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Yunnan / China, Thailand, Indonesia and East Indies.—Habitat: This species inhabits freshwater and tidal waters in a variety of habitats, including large rivers, lakes, tanks, channels, and reservoirs. It is one of the largest, most voracious, and most predatory of the local catfish, which thrives well in rivers and tanks, especially in jheels with grassy margins. It mostly hides under holes in riverbanks and canals, and it prefers muddy tanks subject to periodic flooding from a nullah or river. It is rather sluggish and stays at the bottom of water in search of food. Freshwater.

Economic importance. Commercially important.

Conservation. Conservation status in Afghanistan: Unknown.—IUCN: VU (Ng et al. 2019).—Threats: CLI, CON, FIT, TOU, EUT.—High sensitivity to human activities.—Keystone species.—Decline status: Decreasing.— Moderate priority for conservation action.

Notes

Published as part of Çiçek, Erdoğan, Fricke, Ronald, Eagderi, Soheil, Sungur, Sevil, Coad, Brian W & Hamdard, Mohammad Hamid, 2023, Fishes of Afghanistan; a revised and updated annotated checklist, pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 5305 (1) on pages 41-42, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5305.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8048564

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Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5305.1.1 (DOI)
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Biodiversity

Family
Siluridae
Genus
Wallago
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Siluriformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Bloch & Schneider
Species
attu
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Wallago attu (Bloch, 1801) sec. Çiçek, Fricke, Eagderi, Sungur, Coad & Hamdard, 2023

References

  • Bloch, M. E. & Schneider, J. G. (1801) M. E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae Iconibus cx Ilustratum. Post obitum auctoris opus inchoatum absolvit, correxit, interpolavit Jo. Gottlob Schneider, Saxo. Sumtibus Auctoris Impressum et Bibliopolio Sanderiano Commissum, Berolini, lx + 584 pp., 110 pls. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 5750
  • Hamilton, F. (1822) An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches. Printed for A. Constable and company, Edinburgh and London, vii + 405 pp., pls. 1 - 39. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 59540
  • Jayaram, K. C. (2006) Catfishes of India. Narendera Publishing Houde, Delhi, xxii + 383 pp., pls. 111.
  • Kottelat, M. (2001) Fishes of Laos. WHT Publications, Colombo, 198 pp., 48 pls.
  • Coad, B. W. (1981) Fishes of Afghanistan, an annoted checklist. National Museum of Canada Publications in Zoology, 14, i - v + 1 - 26.
  • Coad, B. W. (2014) Fishes of Afghanistan. Pensoft Publishers, Sofia-Moscow. 393 pp.
  • Mirza, M. R. (2003) Checklist of freshwater fishes of Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Zoology Supplement Series, 3, 1 - 30.
  • Hossain, Md. Y., Ahmed, Z. F., Ohtomi, J., Ibrahim, A. H. Md., El-kady, M. A. H., Fulunda, B. & Chakraborty, S. K. (2008) Threatened fishes of the world: Wallago attu (Bloch and Schneider, 1801) (Siluriformes: Siluridae). Environmental Biology of Fishes, 82 (3), 277 - 278. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 10641 - 007 - 9281 - y
  • Ng, H. H., de Alwis Goonatilake, S., Fernado, M. & Kotagama, O. (2019) Wallago attu (errata version published in 2020). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2019, e. T 166468 A 174784999. https: // doi. org / 10.2305 / IUCN. UK. 2019 - 3. RLTS. T 166468 A 174784999. en