Batrachocephalus

Batrachocephalus mino, the beardless sea catfish, is the only species of catfish (order Siluriformes) in the genus Batrachocephalus of the family Ariidae.[1] This species occurs in marine and brackish waters of Bay of Bengal, and parts of the western central Pacific, in coastal waters, estuaries, and lower reaches of rivers.[1] It is distributed from Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Malaysia, Thailand, to Indonesia.[2]

Batrachocephalus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Siluriformes
Family:	Ariidae
Genus:	Batrachocephalus Bleeker, 1846
Species:	B. mino
Binomial name
Batrachocephalus mino (F. Hamilton, 1822)
Synonyms
Ageneiosus mino F. Hamilton, 1822 Batrachocephalus ageneiosus Bleeker, 1846 Batrachocephalus micropogon Bleeker, 1858

This fish reaches about 25.0 cm (9.8 in) in total length.[2]

B. mino feeds on invertebrates and small fishes. It is caught commercially for human consumption.[3]

References

1. Ferraris, Carl J., Jr. (2007). "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1418: 1–628.
2. Marceniuk, Alexandre P.; Menezes, Naércio A. (2007). "Systematics of the family Ariidae (Ostariophysi, Siluriformes), with a redefinition of the genera" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1416: 1–126.
3. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). "Batrachocephalus mino" in FishBase. December 2011 version.