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Clarias leiacanthus Bleeker 1851

Description

Clarias leiacanthus Bleeker, 1851

Clarias leiacanthus Bleeker, 1851b: Choy & Chin, 1994: 764 (Belalong-Temburong basin upstream of Kuala Belalong); Kottelat and Lim 1995: 242; Sulaiman & Shahdan, 2003: 61 (Tasek Merimbun); Sulaiman & Shahdan, 2007: 18 (Tasek Merimbun).

Clarias teijsmanni Bleeker, 1857: Choy & Chin, 1994: 764 (Belalong-Temburong basin upstream of Kuala Belalong); Kottelat & Lim, 1995: 242; Parenti & Meisner, 2003: 44 (upper, middle and lower Belait).

Clarias teijsmanii Bleeker, 1857: Sulaiman & Shahdan, 2003: 61 (Tasek Merimbun); Sulaiman & Shahdan, 2007: 19 (Tasek Merimbun).

Remarks. Clarias teijsmanni Bleeker is presently regarded as a junior synonym of Clarias leiacanthus (see

Kottelat, 2013: 243). The citation of both names by Choy & Chin (1994) from the Belalong basin, and Sulaiman & Shahdan (2007) from Tasek Merimbun, is a strong indication that there are two species involved. From material obtained at Tasek Merimbun, Sulaiman & Shahdan (2003: 61) identified Clarias leiacanthus by the white edges to its median fins and C. teijsmanni, by its squarish head and ‘darker colour’.

Notes

Published as part of Sulaiman, Zohrah, Hui, Tan Heok & Lim, Kelvin Kok Peng, 2018, Annotated checklist of freshwater fishes from Brunei Darussalam, Borneo in Zootaxa 4379 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4379.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/1172314

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Bleeker
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Siluriformes
Family
Siluridae
Genus
Clarias
Species
leiacanthus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Clarias leiacanthus Bleeker, 1851 sec. Sulaiman, Hui & Lim, 2018

References

  • Bleeker, P. (1851 b) Vijfde bijdrage tot de kennis der ichthyologische fauna van Borneo met beschrijving van eenige nieuwe soorten van zoetwatervisschen. Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indie, 2, 415 - 442.
  • Choy, S. C. & Chin, P. K. (1994) Freshwater fishes from the headwaters of the Belalong-Temburong river system, Brunei Darussalam, Borneo. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 42 (4), 757 - 774.
  • Bleeker, P. (1857) Descriptiones specierum pisciu, javanensium novarum vel minus cognitarium Diagnosticae. Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indie, 13, 323 - 368.