Wallagonia maculatus
Wallagonia maculatus is a species of catfish in the family Siluridae (the sheatfishes) endemic to Malaysia, where it is known only from Sabah in northern Borneo. This species grows up to a length of 100 centimetres (39 in) SL.[1][2]
| Wallagonia maculatus | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Siluridae |
| Genus: | Wallagonia |
| Species: | W. maculatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Wallagonia maculatus Inger & Chin, 1959 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Wallago maculatus | |
Until osteological research validated the genus Wallagonia in 2014, W. maculatus was included in the genus Wallago.[3]
References
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2014). "Wallago maculatus" in FishBase. July 2014 version.
- "Wallago maculatus Inger & Chin, 1959". Cat-eLog Data Sheets. PlanetCatfish.
- Roberts, T.R. (2014): Wallago Bleeker, 1851 and Wallagonia Myers, 1938 (Ostariophysi, Siluridae), Distinct Genera of Tropical Asian Catfishes, with Description of †Wallago maemohensis from the Miocene of Thailand. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, 55 (1): 35-47. doi:10.3374/014.055.0103
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