Ketengus
Genus of fishes
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Ketengus typus, the bigmouth sea-catfish, is the only species in the sea catfish genus Ketengus (order Siluriformes).[1][2]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Ariidae |
| Genus: | Ketengus Bleeker, 1847 |
| Species: | K. typus |
| Binomial name | |
| Ketengus typus Bleeker, 1847 | |
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This fish is found in South and Southeast Asia in India, Andaman Islands, Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia.[1] It is distributed in the Eastern Bay of Bengal and Malay Peninsula in nearshore coastal waters, estuaries, and lower reaches of rivers.[2] It lives mostly in brackish waters and rarely freshwaters.[1]
Katengus typus feeds on scale of other fishes, invertebrates and small fishes.[3] K. typus grows up to 25.0 centimetres TL.[3]
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