Talking Catfish
The walking catfish clarias batrachus is an air breather of the family.
Talking catfish. This peaceful nocturnal species is a popular aquarium fish due to its pleasant temperament and curious nature. Some others doradid s called talking catfish include the spiny catfish acanthodoras spinosissimus. It may also be called southern striped raphael talking catfish chocolate doradid chocolate catfish or thorny catfish.
The doradidae are a family of catfishes also known as thorny catfishes raphael catfishes or talking catfishes. Striped raphael catfish is a catfish of the family doradidae. The upside down catfishes synodontis batensoda and others of the family mochokidae habitually swim upside down.
Another is the painted talking catfish acanthodoras cataphrectus. Urogenital openings of bathers. It is native to the amazon paraguay paraná and lower orinoco basins in south america.
The talking catfish acanthodoras spinosissimus is an armoured amazonian species that makes grunting sounds. Other articles where talking catfish is discussed. These fish are native to south america primarily the amazon basin and the guianas.
This is a very pretty with an almost paisley type design in its patterning and it is also a very peaceful fish that does well in a community aquarium. Use our fish community creator tool to plan your tank set up and ensure that the striped talking catfish is the right fish for your aquarium. This attractive and comical fish can grow to 20cm and may eat little fish so it is best kept in larger aquaria with medium sized fish.
The type locality is given as pebas equador by cope 1870 but this apparently refers to the settlement of the same name located east of the city of iquitos in loreto region northern peru an area once disputably claimed by ecuador.
