WoRMS taxon details
Clarias macrocephalus Günther, 1864
280202 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:280202)
accepted
Species
Günther, A. (1864). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Siluridae, Characinidae, Haplochitonidae, Sternoptychidae, Scopelidae, Stomiatidae in the collection of the British Museum. v. 5: i-xxii + 1-455. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Clarias macrocephalus Günther, 1864. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=280202 on 2026-07-10
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Nomenclature
original description
Günther, A. (1864). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Siluridae, Characinidae, Haplochitonidae, Sternoptychidae, Scopelidae, Stomiatidae in the collection of the British Museum. v. 5: i-xxii + 1-455. [details]
Ecology
ecology source
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). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Other
additional source
Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (72 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (32 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Clarias macrocephalus)
To GenBank (28592 nucleotides; 316 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Data Deficient)
To NHMUK collection (Clarias macrocephalus Günther, 1864; PARALECTOTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:3134752)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (32 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Clarias macrocephalus)
To GenBank (28592 nucleotides; 316 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Data Deficient)
To NHMUK collection (Clarias macrocephalus Günther, 1864; PARALECTOTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:3134752)
To ITIS
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