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Aquarium Care: Keep with species that are the same size or larger as this species can be predatory which is akin to most bagrids. Needs a large tank with hiding places. Diet: Will eat most prepared foods, tablets, pellets, live and frozen foods etc. Etymology: The genus name Leiocassis: leios, smooth; cassis, helmet, referring to covering of skin and muscle on head. The specific name micropogon: micro-, small; pogon, beard, referring to eight slender barbels. Remarks: Leiocassis hosii has now been declared as a synonym of L. micropogon (2021).
Lancer Catfish
Bagrus micropogon, Leiocassis hosii
Bagridae
Asia: Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo. Type locality: Malaysia; Blitong, in flumine Tjirutjup.
20.0cm ( 8ins)
18-28°C (63-83°F)
6.5-7.0.
Eschmeyer's
Catalog of Fishes
2021. California Acadamey of Sciences.
Ferraris, C.J. Jr., 2007. Checklist
of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes),
and catalogue of siluriform primary types. Zootaxa
1418:1-628.
Riehl, R. and H.A. Baensch
1991 Aquarien Atlas. Band. 1. Melle: Mergus, Verlag
für Natur- und Heimtierkunde, Germany. 992 p.
The
ETYFish Project
Fish Name Etymology Database © Christopher Scharpf.
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