Ketengus
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Ketengus typus, the bigmouth sea-catfish, is the only species in the sea catfish genus Ketengus (order Siluriformes).[1][2]
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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- Ariidae
- Catfish of Asia
- Catfish of Oceania
- Fish of the Indian Ocean
- Fish of the Pacific Ocean
- Fish of South Asia
- Fish of India
- Fauna of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Fish of Thailand
- Fish of Indonesia
- Fish of Malaysia
- Marine fish of Southeast Asia
- Taxa named by Pieter Bleeker
- Catfish genera
- Monotypic ray-finned fish genera