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butter catfish
Ompok bimaculatus (Bloch, 1794)
Also calledToplettet glasmalle (dan) · ompok dvouskvrnný (ces) · Двупятнистый сомик (rus) · ปลาชะโอนสาละวิน (tha)
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
conservation
Conservation. Conservation status in Afghanistan: Unknown. — IUCN: NT (Ng et al. 2010). — Threats: FIT. — Moderate sensitivity to human activities. — Not considered as a keystone species. — Decline status: Unknown. — Moderate priority for conservation action.
Fishes of Afghanistan; a revised and updated annotated checklist
discussion
Status in Afghanistan. First record from Afghanistan by Coad (1981: 16); confirmed by Coad (2014: 287; 2015: 229). — Afghanistan materials: None.
Fishes of Afghanistan; a revised and updated annotated checklist
distribution
Distribution and habitat. Distribution in Afghanistan: Kabul River. — General distribution: South Asia: Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Myanmar. — Habitat: This species inhabits plains and submontane regions and is found in rivers, lakes, tanks, and ponds. Freshwater.
Fishes of Afghanistan; a revised and updated annotated checklist
materials_examined
RMNH 7811 (holotype of Wallago miostoma), 205.4 mm SL; Borneo: Tepoe. ZRC 45558 (9), 123.3 - 187.2 mm SL; Borneo: Kalimantan Timur, Mahakam River upstream of Kota Bangun.
Ompok platyrhynchus, a new silurid catfish (Teleostei: Siluridae) from Borneo.
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Ompok bimaculatus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2337651.