WoRMS taxon details
Arius arius (Hamilton, 1822)
275569 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:275569)
accepted
Species
Arius boakeii Turner, 1867 · unaccepted
Arius buchanani Day, 1877 · unaccepted
Arius cochinchinensis Günther, 1864 · unaccepted
Arius falcarius Richardson, 1845 · unaccepted (synonym)
Bagrus crinalis Richardson, 1846 · unaccepted
Pimelodus arius Hamilton, 1822 · unaccepted
Pimelodus mong Richardson, 1846 · unaccepted
Tachysurus arius (Hamilton, 1822) · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Pimelodus arius Hamilton, 1822) Hamilton, F. (1822). An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches. <em>Edinburgh & London.</em> i-vii + 1-405, Pls. 1-39. [Often seen as Hamilton-Buchanan or Buchanan-Hamilton; in work as Hamilton [formerly Buchanan].].
page(s): 170, 376 [details]
page(s): 170, 376 [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Arius arius (Hamilton, 1822). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=275569 on 2025-04-29
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Arius cochinchinensis Günther, 1864) 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]
original description (of Arius buchanani Day, 1877) Day, F. (1877). The fishes of India; being a natural history of the fishes known to inhabit the seas and fresh waters of India, Burma, and Ceylon. Part 3: 369-552, Pls. 79-138.
page(s): 463, Pl. 105 (fig. 6) [details]
original description (of Pimelodus arius Hamilton, 1822) Hamilton, F. (1822). An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches. <em>Edinburgh & London.</em> i-vii + 1-405, Pls. 1-39. [Often seen as Hamilton-Buchanan or Buchanan-Hamilton; in work as Hamilton [formerly Buchanan].].
page(s): 170, 376 [details]
original description (of Arius buchanani Day, 1877) Day, F. (1877). The fishes of India; being a natural history of the fishes known to inhabit the seas and fresh waters of India, Burma, and Ceylon. Part 3: 369-552, Pls. 79-138.
page(s): 463, Pl. 105 (fig. 6) [details]
original description (of Pimelodus arius Hamilton, 1822) Hamilton, F. (1822). An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches. <em>Edinburgh & London.</em> i-vii + 1-405, Pls. 1-39. [Often seen as Hamilton-Buchanan or Buchanan-Hamilton; in work as Hamilton [formerly Buchanan].].
page(s): 170, 376 [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). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (64 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (28 publications) (from synonym Pimelodus arius Hamilton, 1822)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (34 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Arius buchanani Day, 1877)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (50 publications) (from synonym Arius falcarius Richardson, 1845)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Arius cochinchinensis Günther, 1864)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Bagrus crinalis Richardson, 1846)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) (from synonym Pimelodus mong Richardson, 1846)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Arius arius)
To FishBase (from synonym Arius boakeii Turner, 1867)
To FishBase (from synonym Arius buchanani Day, 1877)
To FishBase (from synonym Arius falcarius Richardson, 1845)
To FishBase (from synonym Arius cochinchinensis Günther, 1864)
To FishBase (from synonym Tachysurus arius (Hamilton, 1822))
To FishBase (from synonym Pimelodus mong Richardson, 1846)
To FishBase (from synonym Pimelodus arius Hamilton, 1822)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Bagrus crinalis Richardson, 1846)
To FishBase images (Arius arius, Pakistan, by Osmany, H.B.)
To GenBank (87 nucleotides; 84 proteins)
To GenBank (87 nucleotides; 84 proteins) (from synonym Tachysurus arius (Hamilton, 1822))
To GenBank (87 nucleotides; 84 proteins) (from synonym Pimelodus arius Hamilton, 1822)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NHMUK collection (Arius falcarius Richardson, 1845; SYNTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:3134629) (from synonym Arius falcarius Richardson, 1845)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (28 publications) (from synonym Pimelodus arius Hamilton, 1822)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (34 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Arius buchanani Day, 1877)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (50 publications) (from synonym Arius falcarius Richardson, 1845)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Arius cochinchinensis Günther, 1864)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Bagrus crinalis Richardson, 1846)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) (from synonym Pimelodus mong Richardson, 1846)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Arius arius)
To FishBase (from synonym Arius boakeii Turner, 1867)
To FishBase (from synonym Arius buchanani Day, 1877)
To FishBase (from synonym Arius falcarius Richardson, 1845)
To FishBase (from synonym Arius cochinchinensis Günther, 1864)
To FishBase (from synonym Tachysurus arius (Hamilton, 1822))
To FishBase (from synonym Pimelodus mong Richardson, 1846)
To FishBase (from synonym Pimelodus arius Hamilton, 1822)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Bagrus crinalis Richardson, 1846)
To FishBase images (Arius arius, Pakistan, by Osmany, H.B.)
To GenBank (87 nucleotides; 84 proteins)
To GenBank (87 nucleotides; 84 proteins) (from synonym Tachysurus arius (Hamilton, 1822))
To GenBank (87 nucleotides; 84 proteins) (from synonym Pimelodus arius Hamilton, 1822)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NHMUK collection (Arius falcarius Richardson, 1845; SYNTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:3134629) (from synonym Arius falcarius Richardson, 1845)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
Hosted externally, from synonym
