Poissons chats

Plotosidae

Eeltail catfishes

Classification
Ostéichthyen Siluriformes Plotosidae Plotosus
40 espèces

Classification

Ostéichthyen

Siluriformes

Plotosidae

Plotosus

40 espèces

Références web
fishbase WetWebMedia aquaportail	en.wiki wildsingapore

Références web

fishbase

WetWebMedia

aquaportail

en.wiki

wildsingapore

Description
Indo-WPacifiq tropical tails elongated in an eel-like fashion, eel-like bodies either naked or covered with bony plates pointed or bluntly-rounded tail four pairs of barbels on head, one nasal, one maxillary, and two on chin bottom feeders and use the barbels around their mouth to detect food glandes à venin dans la colonne vertébrale de la première nageoire dorsale et des nageoires pelviennes; highly venomous, lethal nesters & guarders	Identification key to Plotosidae

Description

Indo-WPacifiq tropical
tails elongated in an eel-like fashion,
eel-like bodies either naked or covered with bony plates
pointed or bluntly-rounded tail
four pairs of barbels on head, one nasal, one maxillary, and two on chin
bottom feeders and use the barbels around their mouth to detect food
glandes à venin dans la colonne vertébrale de la première nageoire dorsale et des nageoires pelviennes; highly venomous, lethal
nesters & guarders

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Identification key to Plotosidae

Etymologies		Source
Plotosus	Greek, plotos = to float	fishbase
Siluriforme	Greek, silouros, silurus, sly silurus (Silurus glanis) + Latin, forma = shape	fishbase



Plotosus lineatus
fishbase / reef-guardian / doris / aquaportail / souslesmers / recif-france / australianmuseum / fishesofaustralia	Synonymes Striped eel catfish	Thunbert, 1787 / NE / ITIS 164236

2014 Bunaken (Sulawesi) ©mda (via INaturalist)	2016 Oman ©mda (via INaturalist)	2016 Oman ©mda (via INaturalist)


2013 Hurghada ©mda (via INaturalist)	2009 Bali ©mda (via INaturalist)	2012 Lembeh (Sulawesi) ©mda (via INaturalist)


2009 Bali ©mda (via INaturalist)	2015 Australia ©Nigel Marsh (via INaturalist)	2019 Sydney ©Lucy Smiechura (via INaturalist)


2006 Manado (Sulawesi) by Jens Petersen (via Wikimedia Commons)	2015 Komodo by Mark Rosenstein (via Encyclopedia of Life)	2016 Sydney (Au) by John Turnbull (via Encyclopedia of Life)


2005 Aquarium (S-Francisco) ©Stan Shebs (via Wikimedia Commons)	juveniles, 2010 Reunion by Philippe Bourjon (via fishbase)	2000 Seychelles ©Randall, John E. (via fishbase)


2004 Singapore by Ria Tan (via Encyclopedia of Life)	2013 Sydney (Au)) by Silke Rohrlach (via Encyclopedia of Life)	2016 Sydney (Au) by John Turnbull (via Encyclopedia of Life)


at night, 1995 Norfolk Island ©Randall, John E. (via fishbase)	2006 Manado (Sulawesi) by Jens Petersen (via Wikimedia Commons)	2008 by Alain Feulvarch (via Encyclopedia of Life)


2010 Iran ©Ramin Ketabi (via fishbase)	2017 Balicasag (Ph) by Peter Dixie (via fishbase)	juvéniles, 2010 Réunion ©Philippe Bourjon (via fishbase)


2016 Poseidon (Egypt) ©Trevor Meyer (via fishbase)	2010 Lord Howe Is (Au) by Mike Guiry (via fishbase)	2012 Iran by Mohammad Hosseinpour (via fishbase)
Indo & WCPacifiq & Red sea	Poisson chat rayé	tropical
dorsal and anal fins continuous with caudal fin; with 4 pairs of mouth barbels; and a single highly venomous serrate spine at the beginning of the first dorsal and each of the pectoral fins; striped body (black-yellow); stripes become less distinct with age
1-60m / 25-32cm video highly venomous spine	dioecism, fécondation externe, openwater, nesting (under rocks and other large pieces of debris), guarding < male	solitaire or ptts grps (20) & hide under ledges (anfractuosités) during the day, sciaphiles; mimicked by Caranx bucculentus
Plotosus lineatus

MàJ 13/03/2023