This article is about Clarias batrachus. For the Sri Lanka walking catfish, see Clarias brachysoma.
Walking catfish
Piebald C. batrachus; a common morph in aquaculture
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Actinopterygii
Order:
Siluriformes
Family:
Clariidae
Genus:
Clarias
Species:
C. batrachus
Binomial name
Clarias batrachus
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
Silurus batrachus Linnaeus, 1758
Clarias punctatus Valenciennes, 1840
Clarias assamensis Day, 1877
The walking catfish (Clarias batrachus) is a species of freshwater airbreathing catfish native to Southeast Asia. It is named for its ability to "walk" and wiggle across dry land, to find food or suitable environments. While it does not truly walk as most bipeds or quadrupeds do, it can use its pectoral fins to keep it upright as it makes a wiggling motion with snakelike movements to traverse land.[2] This fish normally lives in slow-moving and often stagnant waters in ponds, swamps, streams, and rivers, as well as in flooded rice paddies, or temporary pools that may dry up. When this happens, its "walking" skill allows the fish to move to other aquatic environments. Considerable taxonomic confusion surrounds this species and it has frequently been confused with other close relatives.[3][4] One main distinction between the walking catfish and the native North American ictalurid catfish with which it sometimes is confused, is that the walking catfish lacks an adipose fin.[5] It can survive 18 hours out of water. [6]
^Ng, H.H.; Low, B.W. (2019). "Clarias batrachus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T166613A1138872. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T166613A1138872.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
^"Catfish 'walk' down street". Metro.co.uk. 2008-07-18. Retrieved 2008-07-18.
^Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2011). "Clarias batrachus" in FishBase. December 2011 version.
^Ng, Heok Hee, and Kottelat, Maurice (2008). The identity of Clarias batrachus (Linnaeus, 1758), with the designation of a neotype (Teleostei: Clariidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 153: 725–732.
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^Byington, Cara (2020-07-23). "The Invasive Catfish That Walks Across Parking Lots". Cool Green Science. Retrieved 2023-12-23.
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