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Clarias gariepinus

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Clarias gariepinus (Burchell)

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Distribution. Plover Cove Reservoir, Kowloon Reception Reservoir (Lai, 2011); Ho Chung River (DSD, 2021); Ng Tung River (GBIF.org, 2021); Ko Po area (Fanling); Kam Tin River, Tin Shui Wai River, Aberdeen Upper Reservoir, Aberdeen Lower Reservoir, Kowloon Reservoir, Kowloon Byewash Reservoir, Tai Lam Chung Reservoir, Shing Mun Reservoir, Lower Shing Mun Reservoir, Pok Fu Lam Reservoir, Wong Nai Chung Reservoir, Tai Tam Byewash Reservoir, Tsing Tam Reservoir, High Island Reservoir (H.T. Cheng, pers. comm., 2021); Tan Shan River, Tung Tsz Stream, Lam Tsuen River (current survey).

Native range. Central and South America.

Remarks. These records might comprise several species, which are not identifiable to species level due to complex taxonomy and hybridisation (Wu et al., 2011).

Notes

Published as part of Chan, Jeffery C. F., Tsang, Alphonse H. F., Yau, Sze-man, Hui, Tommy C. H., Lau, Anthony, Tan, Heok Hui, Low, Bi Wei, Dudgeon, David & Liew, Jia Huan, 2023, The non-native freshwater fishes of Hong Kong: diversity, distributions, and origins, pp. 128-168 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 71 on page 139, DOI: 10.26107/RBZ-2023-0012, http://zenodo.org/record/7815765

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Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.7815817 (DOI)
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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Burchell
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Siluriformes
Family
Clariidae
Genus
Clarias
Species
gariepinus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Clarias gariepinus (Burchell, 1822) sec. Chan, Tsang, Yau, Hui, Lau, Tan, Low, Dudgeon & Liew, 2023

References

  • Lai SYH (2011) Reservoir fishes of Hong Kong with remarks on conservation options. Memoirs of the Hong Kong Natural History Society, (27): 63 - 82.
  • Wu LW, Liu CC & Lin SM (2011) Identification of exotic sailfin catfish species (Pterygoplichthys, Loricariidae) in Taiwan based on morphology and mtDNA sequences. Zoological Studies, 50 (2): 235 - 246.