Clarias nigricans

Short description: Species of fish

Clarias nigricans

Conservation status

Data Deficient (IUCN 3.1)[1]

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Actinopterygii
Order:  | Siluriformes
Family:  | Clariidae
Genus:  | Clarias
Species:  |

C. nigricans

Binomial name
Clarias nigricans

H. H. Ng, 2003

Holotype  (Nov. 1999)

Paratypes  (May. 1909)

Clarias nigricans (Borneo)

Clarias nigricans is a species of clariid catfish. It is only known from the Mahakam River in eastern Borneo. The eel-like catfish of this region were long assumed to belong to the widespread species Clarias nieuhofii but examination of 6 specimens purchased from a fish market in Samarinda in 1999 and preserved specimens from the same location revealed consistent and distinctive differences indicating a separate species.

This is an elongated catfish up to 30.8 cm (12.1 inches) standard length. Compared to C. nieuhofii it has a "neck" distinctly narrower than the head, giving the head an egg-shaped appearance when viewed from above or below and the overall colour is much darker: purplish grey with much fainter white spots arranged in one row below the lateral line instead of two.

## References

1. ↑ Ng, H.H. (2019). "Clarias nigricans". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T91226566A91226573. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T91226566A91226573.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/91226566/91226573. Retrieved 20 November 2021.

* Ng, H. H. (2003). Clarias nigricans, a new species of clariid catfish (Teleostei: Siluriformes) from eastern Borneo. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 51: 393–398.
* Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). "Clarias nigricans" in FishBase. December 2011 version.

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