Batrachocephalus mino

Taxobox
name = "Batrachocephalus mino"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Siluriformes
familia = Ariidae
subfamilia = Ariinae
genus = "Batrachocephalus"
genus_authority = Bleeker, 1846
species = "B. mino"
binomial = "Batrachocephalus mino"
binomial_authority = (Hamilton, 1822)
synonyms =
*"Ageneiosus mino"
Hamilton, 1822
*"Batrachocephalus ageneiosus"
Bleeker, 1846
*"Batrachocephalus micropogon"
Bleeker, 1858

"Batrachocephalus mino" is the only species of catfish (order Siluriformes) in the genus "Batrachocephalus" of the family Ariidae.cite journal|url=http://silurus.acnatsci.org/ACSI/library/biblios/2007_Ferraris_Catfish_Checklist.pdf|title=Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types|first=Carl J., Jr.|last=Ferraris|journal=Zootaxa|volume=1418|pages=1–628|year=2007|format=PDF] This species occurs in marine and brackish waters of Bay of Bengal, and parts of the western central Pacific, in coastal waters, estuaries, and lower reaches of rivers. It is distributed from Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Malaysia, Thailand, to Indonesia.cite journal|url=http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2007f/zt01416p126.pdf|title=Systematics of the family Ariidae (Ostariophysi, Siluriformes), with a redefinition of the genera|first=Alexandre P.|last=Marceniuk|coauthors=Menezes, Naércio A.|journal=Zootaxa|volume=1416|pages=1–126|year=2007|format=PDF]

This fish reaches about 25.0 centimetres (9.8 in) TL.

"B. mino" feeds on invertebrates and small fishes. It is caught with shore seines, dipnets, stake traps and set bagnets.FishBase species|genus=Batrachocephalus|species=mino|year=2008|month=Sep]

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