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Common names: Barred spiny eel, Guchi, Pankal baim
Occurrence: native
Salinity: freshwater
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Importance: minor commercial | Ref: Anonymous, 2005
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Reported from Choto Jamuna river (Ref. 100698). Found in small rivers, canals, streams, beels, ponds, and inundated fields. Very abundant during the rainy season. Also Ref. 4833, 39989, 41236, 56321.
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Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Rahman, A.K.A., 1989
National Database:

Common names from other countries

Striped spinyeel, 吻鳞刺鳅, Kathgainchi, ... more

Classificação / Names Nomes comuns | Sinônimos | Catalog of Fishes(Gênero, Espécies) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

> Synbranchiformes (Spiny eels) > Mastacembelidae (Spiny eels)
Etymology: Macrognathus: Greek, makros = great + Greek, gnathos = jaw (Ref. 45335).
More on author: Hamilton.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecologia

; Água doce; estuarina bentopelágico. Tropical; 38°N - 8°N

Distribuição Países | Áreas da FAO | Ecossistemas | Ocorrências | Point map | Introduções | Faunafri

Asia: Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh. Reported from Nepal (Ref. 9496).

Comprimento de primeira maturação / Tamanho / Peso / Idade

Maturity: L_m 11.5, range 11 - 12 cm
Max length : 18.9 cm TL macho/indeterminado; (Ref. 125887); peso máx. publicado: 34.52 g (Ref. 125887)

Descrição suscinta Chaves de identificação | Morfologia | Morfometria

Espinhos dorsais (total) : 24 - 26; Raios dorsais (total) : 30 - 42; Raios anais : 31 - 46.

Inhabits slow and shallow waters of rivers of plains and estuaries; never available above an altitude of 366 m. Also found in canals, streams, beels, ponds and inundated fields (Ref. 1479). Has been placed into aquaria and kept by hobbyists; it stays on the bottom and spawns in the upper water-level. The more slender and generally smaller males pursue the female in courtship; several males may join in.

Ciclo de vida ou comportamento de acasalamento Maturities | Reprodução | Spawnings | Egg(s) | Fecundities | Larvas

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Talwar, P.K. and A.G. Jhingran, 1991. Inland fishes of India and adjacent countries. Volume 2. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam, i-xxii + 543-1158, 1 pl. (Ref. 4833)

Status na Lista Vermelha da UICN (Ref. 130435)

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Macrognathus pancalus Hamilton, 1822