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Pangasianodon hypophthalmus (Sauvage, 1878)

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
order
Siluriformes
family
Pangasiidae
genus
Pangasianodon
species
Pangasianodon hypophthalmus

Name

Synonyms
Helicophagus hypophthalmus Sauvage, 1878
Pangasius hypophthalmus (Sauvage, 1878)
Pangasius sutchi Fowler, 1937
Homonyms
Pangasianodon hypophthalmus (Sauvage, 1878)
Common names
Asya Kedi Balığı in Turkish
Ca Tra in Vietnamese
Haiwels in German
Iridescent Shark in English
Panga in Spanish
Panga in Spanish
Pangasio in Italian
Pangasius in German
Pangasius Catfish in English
Patin in English
Peixe-gato-Sutchi in Portuguese
Pez gato iridiscente in Spanish
Pla Sawai in language.
Silure requin in French
Silure requin in French
Striped catfish in English
Sum rekini in Polish
Sutchi Catfish in English
Swai in English
Swai in English
iridescent shark-catfish in English
iridescent shark-catfish in English
pangas spodnooký in Czech
pangasius tra in Dutch
progasti som in Slovenian
striped catfish in English
striped catfish in English
trey pra in Central Khmer
trey pra in Central Khmer
Ázsiai cápaharcsa in Hungarian
Пангасиус сиамский in Russian
שפמנון אסיאתי in Hebrew
قرش قزحي اللون in Arabic
ปลาสวาย in Thai
Striped Catfish in English
striped catfish in English
Ca Tra in Vietnamese
Pla Sawai in Thai
Trey Pra in Central Khmer

Bibliographic References

  1. Castellanos-Mejía, M.C., J. Herrera, E.A. Noguera-Urbano, E. Parra, and L.F. Jiménez-Segura, 2021: Potential distribution in Columbia of the introduced fish Pangasianodon hypophthalmus (Siluriformes: Pangasiidae) and implications for endangered native fish. Revista de Biología Tropical, vol. 69, no. 2. 573-587.
  2. Ferraris, Carl J., Jr., 2007: Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and a catalogue of siluriform primary types. Zootaxa, no. 1418. 1-628.
  3. Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025).
  4. Kottelat, Maurice, 2013: The fishes of the inland waters of southeast Asia: a catalogue and core bibliography of the fishes known to occur in freshwaters, mangroves and estuaries. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, supplement no. 27. 1-663.
  5. Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). 10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4
  6. Rainboth, Walter J., 1996: null. FAO species identification field guide for fishery purposes. Fishes of the Cambodian Mekong. 265.
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