Clarias gariepinus picture (Cgariepinus.jpg) by Beng Yong Tang
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| Size (cm): | 30 TL |
| Locality: | Singapore, Pandan Canal, downstream from Clementi road |
| Sex: | undetermined |
| Date: | 2004-06-30 |
| Remark: | A newly introduced species, also found in Nanyang Technological University pond, possibly elsewhere. May have been imported as fry to use as fish food for Luohan / flower horn cichlids in the aquarium trade. Locally it grows to over 2 feet in length. This species may have caused the extinction of the only native fish species in this canal: Mystus gulio (locally called 'baung' catfish). |