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  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderSiluriformes
  4. ›familySiluridae
  5. ›genusSilurus
Silurus asotus
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IUCN LC · Least concern

Amur Catfish

Silurus asotus Linnaeus, 1758

Also calledAmur yayın balığı (tur) · Amur-Wels (deu) · Amurmalle (dan) · Amurwels (deu) · Cá nheo sông Amur (vie) · Namazu (jpn) · Silure asote (fra) · Siluro del Amur (spa) · Silurus asotus (spa) · Sum amurski (pol) · cá nheo (vie) · siluro dell'Amur (ita) · sumec amurský (ces) · Амурский сом (rus)

First described in: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. <em>Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae.</em>

This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2337594.