Hara minuscula • Sisoridae • Cat-eLog

Cat-eLog Data Sheet
Scientific Name	**Hara minuscula** Ng & Kottelat, 2007
Common Name(s)	Burmese Moth Catfish
Type Locality	1.6 kilometers north of Daik-U, Dayame Chaung, Bago, Myanmar.
Pronunciation	ha rah - min uss kew lah
Species Information
Identification	The erethistid catfish genus Hara consists of small to medium sized catfishes with a brown cryptic coloration and heavily tuberculate skin.Species of Hara are diagnosed from other members of the family in having an anteroventral flange on the ventral surface of the complex centrum and the parapophysis of the fifth vertebra with a vertical lamina (de Pinna, 1996). The genus has been recorded from the Ganges-Brahmaputra river drainages eastwards to the Salween River drainage in western Thailand (Hora, 1950; Kottelat, 1989; Ukkatawewat & Vidthayanon, 1998).
Habitat Information
Distribution	Distribution: Sittang River drainage, Myanmar. Myanmar Waters, Sittang (click on these areas to find other species found there) (Click the map-icon to show/hide map of species distribution)
Husbandry Information
Feeding	All Hara are known to take prepared food but prefer live food like bloodworms, frozen brine shrimp etc. May need some effort to gradually get weaned off live foods. Spot feeding will help in case tank mates are voracious feeders.
Compatibility	Care should be taken while choosing their tankmates as these fish are extremely poor at competing for food. There will be a little aggression between congeners sometimes. This can be ignored as the it doesn't result in anything serious.
Suggested Tankmates	Peaceful Cyprinids like Puntius and Balitorine loaches like Schistura or Nemacheilus species.
Breeding	Unreported.
Further Information
References	Revue Suisse de Zoologie v. 114 (no. 3)
Registered Keepers	(1) Silurus, (2) norfolkgarden (k: 2), who also notes: "Bought as Butterfly Cats at LFS. In the 29gal 'snake' loach tank for a week. Moved to seperate 5gal tanks for better feeding for now.", (3) The.Dark.One, (4) pel, (5) irshprncsk. Click on a username above to see all that persons registered catfish species. You can also view all "my cats" data for this species.
Breeding Reports	None.
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Cat-eLog Data Sheet

Scientific Name

Hara minuscula Ng & Kottelat, 2007

Common Name(s)

Burmese Moth Catfish

Type Locality

1.6 kilometers north of Daik-U, Dayame Chaung, Bago, Myanmar.

Pronunciation

ha rah - min uss kew lah

Species Information

Identification

The erethistid catfish genus Hara consists of small to medium sized catfishes with a brown cryptic coloration and heavily tuberculate skin.Species of Hara are diagnosed from other members of the family in having an anteroventral flange on the ventral surface of the complex centrum and the parapophysis of the fifth vertebra with a vertical lamina (de Pinna, 1996). The genus has been recorded from the Ganges-Brahmaputra river drainages eastwards to the Salween River drainage in western Thailand (Hora, 1950; Kottelat, 1989; Ukkatawewat & Vidthayanon, 1998).

Habitat Information

Distribution

Distribution: Sittang River drainage, Myanmar.
Myanmar Waters, Sittang (click on these areas to find other species found there)

(Click the map-icon to show/hide map of species distribution)

Husbandry Information

Feeding

All Hara are known to take prepared food but prefer live food like bloodworms, frozen brine shrimp etc. May need some effort to gradually get weaned off live foods. Spot feeding will help in case tank mates are voracious feeders.

Compatibility

Care should be taken while choosing their tankmates as these fish are extremely poor at competing for food. There will be a little aggression between congeners sometimes. This can be ignored as the it doesn't result in anything serious.

Suggested Tankmates

Peaceful Cyprinids like Puntius and Balitorine loaches like Schistura or Nemacheilus species.

Breeding

Unreported.

Further Information

References

Revue Suisse de Zoologie v. 114 (no. 3)

Registered Keepers

(1) Silurus, (2) norfolkgarden (k: 2), who also notes: "Bought as Butterfly Cats at LFS. In the 29gal 'snake' loach tank for a week. Moved to seperate 5gal tanks for better feeding for now.", (3) The.Dark.One, (4) pel, (5) irshprncsk.

Click on a username above to see all that persons registered catfish species. You can also view all "my cats" data for this species.

Breeding Reports

None.