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 Family Overview | |
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| Pronounced | Claar Id Day |
| Features | Elongated but distinct dorsal, caudal and anal fins. Full set of (usually forward facing) barbels. |
| Distribution | Africa & Asia |
| Common Names | Walking Catfish |
| Size | Smallest 31mm, largest 1750mm, average 434mm, most commonly 350mm. All SL. |
| Species | There are 84 "species" in 16 genera in the database |
| Keepers | 13 species (15%) are being kept by registered keepers |
| Breeders | 2 "species" (2.4%) are being bred. |
| Subfamilies in Clariidae (by species) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 84 species | (100%) | |
| Top Five Genera (by keepers) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Clarias | 38 species | (69 keepers) |
| 2. | Channallabes | 3 species | (14 keepers) |
| 3. | Gymnallabes | 2 species | (11 keepers) |
| 4. | Encheloclarias | 6 species | (2 keepers) |
| 5. | Heterobranchus | 5 species | (2 keepers) |
| Distribution of Clariidae | |
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| Most Kept Species | ||
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| 1. | Clarias batrachus | (52.53%) |
| 2. | Channallabes apus | (14.14%) |
| 3. | Gymnallabes typus | (10.1%) |
| 4. | Clarias gariepinus | (8.08%) |
| 5. | Clarias fuscus | (4.04%) |
| 6. | Heterobranchus longifilis | (2.02%) |
| 7. | Encheloclarias curtisoma | (2.02%) |
| 8. | Clarias nieuhofii | (2.02%) |
| 9. | Tanganikallabes mortiauxi | (1.01%) |
| 10. | Gymnallabes nops | (1.01%) |
| 11. | Clarias liocephalus | (1.01%) |
| 12. | Clarias leiacanthus | (1.01%) |
| 13. | Clarias angolensis | (1.01%) |
| Alphabetic Species List (Chronological | Most Kept | Most Bred) | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Bathyclarias euryodon | (i:0, k:0, b:0) |
| 2. | Bathyclarias foveolatus | (i:4, k:0, b:0) |
| 3. | Bathyclarias ilesi | (i:0, k:0, b:0) |
| 4. | Bathyclarias longibarbis | (i:0, k:0, b:0) |
| 5. | Bathyclarias nyasensis | (i:4, k:0, b:0) |
| 6. | Bathyclarias rotundifrons | (i:0, k:0, b:0) |
| 7. | Bathyclarias worthingtoni | (i:0, k:0, b:0) |
| 8. | Channallabes apus | (i:15, k:14, b:0) |
| 9. | Channallabes sanghaensis | (i:1, k:0, b:0) |
| 10. | Channallabes sp. (1) | (i:5, k:0, b:0) |
| 11. | Clariallabes centralis | (i:1, k:0, b:0) |
| 12. | Clariallabes heterocephalus | (i:1, k:0, b:0) |
| 13. | Clariallabes laticeps | (i:2, k:0, b:0) |
| 14. | Clariallabes longicauda | (i:3, k:0, b:0) |
| 15. | Clariallabes melas | (i:2, k:0, b:0) |
| 16. | Clariallabes platyprosopos | (i:1, k:0, b:0) |
| 17. | Clariallabes teugelsi | (i:1, k:0, b:0) |
| 18. | Clariallabes variabilis | (i:1, k:0, b:0) |
| 19. | Clarias alluaudi | (i:14, k:0, b:0) |
| 20. | Clarias anfractus | (i:1, k:0, b:0) |
| 21. | Clarias angolensis | (i:1, k:1, b:0) |
| 22. | Clarias anguillaris | (i:2, k:0, b:0) |
| 23. | Clarias batrachus | (i:76, k:52, b:1) |
| 24. | Clarias batu | (i:1, k:0, b:0) |
| 25. | Clarias buettikoferi | (i:1, k:0, b:0) |
| 26. | Clarias buthupogon | (i:2, k:0, b:0) |
| 27. | Clarias camerunensis | (i:2, k:0, b:0) |
| 28. | Clarias cavernicola | (i:0, k:0, b:0) |
| 29. | Clarias dhonti | (i:3, k:0, b:0) |
| 30. | Clarias ebriensis | (i:2, k:0, b:0) |
| 31. | Clarias engelseni | (i:3, k:0, b:0) |
| 32. | Clarias fuscus | (i:2, k:4, b:0) |
| 33. | Clarias gabonensis | (i:1, k:0, b:0) |
| 34. | Clarias gariepinus | (i:26, k:8, b:0) |
| 35. | Clarias gracilentus | (i:3, k:0, b:0) |
| 36. | Clarias insolitus | (i:1, k:0, b:0) |
| 37. | Clarias jaensis | (i:1, k:0, b:0) |
| 38. | Clarias leiacanthus | (i:5, k:1, b:0) |
| 39. | Clarias liocephalus | (i:1, k:1, b:0) |
| 40. | Clarias macrocephalus | (i:4, k:0, b:0) |
| 41. | Clarias magur | (i:0, k:0, b:0) |
| 42. | Clarias meladerma | (i:3, k:0, b:0) |
| 43. | Clarias microspilus | (i:0, k:0, b:0) |
| 44. | Clarias monsembulai | (i:1, k:0, b:0) |
| 45. | Clarias ngamensis | (i:2, k:0, b:0) |
| 46. | Clarias nieuhofii | (i:4, k:2, b:0) |
| 47. | Clarias nigromarmoratus | (i:1, k:0, b:0) |
| 48. | Clarias pachynema | (i:3, k:0, b:0) |
| 49. | Clarias platycephalus | (i:3, k:0, b:0) |
| 50. | Clarias rennyae | (i:3, k:0, b:0) |
| 51. | Clarias serniosus | (i:2, k:0, b:0) |
| 52. | Clarias stappersii | (i:1, k:0, b:0) |
| 53. | Clarias submarginatus | (i:1, k:0, b:0) |
| 54. | Clarias teijsmanni | (i:3, k:0, b:0) |
| 55. | Clarias theodorae | (i:5, k:0, b:0) |
| 56. | Clarias werneri | (i:2, k:0, b:0) |
| 57. | Dinotopterus cunningtoni | (i:1, k:0, b:0) |
| 58. | Dinotopterus gigas | (i:3, k:0, b:0) |
| 59. | Dolichallabes microphthalmus | (i:2, k:0, b:0) |
| 60. | Encheloclarias baculum | (i:1, k:0, b:0) |
| 61. | Encheloclarias curtisoma | (i:4, k:2, b:0) |
| 62. | Encheloclarias kelioides | (i:3, k:0, b:0) |
| 63. | Encheloclarias medialis | (i:2, k:0, b:0) |
| 64. | Encheloclarias tapeinopterus | (i:0, k:0, b:0) |
| 65. | Encheloclarias velatus | (i:0, k:0, b:0) |
| 66. | Gymnallabes nops | (i:1, k:1, b:1) |
| 67. | Gymnallabes typus | (i:16, k:10, b:0) |
| 68. | Heterobranchus bidorsalis | (i:1, k:0, b:0) |
| 69. | Heterobranchus boulengeri | (i:1, k:0, b:0) |
| 70. | Heterobranchus isopterus | (i:1, k:0, b:0) |
| 71. | Heterobranchus longifilis | (i:6, k:2, b:0) |
| 72. | Heterobranchus sp. hybrid | (i:2, k:0, b:0) |
| 73. | Horaglanis abdulkalami | (i:1, k:0, b:0) |
| 74. | Horaglanis alikunhii | (i:2, k:0, b:0) |
| 75. | Horaglanis krishnai | (i:1, k:0, b:0) |
| 76. | Horaglanis populi | (i:2, k:0, b:0) |
| 77. | Platyallabes tihoni | (i:2, k:0, b:0) |
| 78. | Platyclarias machadoi | (i:0, k:0, b:0) |
| 79. | Pseudotanganikallabes prognatha | (i:4, k:0, b:0) |
| 80. | Tanganikallabes alboperca | (i:3, k:0, b:0) |
| 81. | Tanganikallabes mortiauxi | (i:11, k:1, b:0) |
| 82. | Tanganikallabes stewarti | (i:3, k:0, b:0) |
| 83. | Uegitglanis zammaranoi | (i:4, k:0, b:0) |
| 84. | Xenoclarias holobranchus | (i:3, k:0, b:0) |