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Anodontiglanis dahli Rendahl, 1922

Description

Common Names

  • Waluna , Bunuba , Australia
  • Toothless catfish , English , Australia
  • Wirlingirri , Gooniyandi , Australia
  • 无齿鳗鲶 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • 無齒鰻鯰 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • Ganangad , Ngarinyin , Australia

    • Taxonomic Hierarchy

    Kingdom: Animalia

    Phylum: Chordata

    Class: Teleostei

    Order: Siluriformes

    Family: Plotosidae

    Genus: Anodontiglanis

    Species: Anodontiglanis dahli Rendahl, 1922

    Climate Zone

  • Tropical

    • Location

  • Oceania: endemic to Australia.

    • Biology

    Lives in clear, flowing waters. Often forms aggregations around log snags or in deeper rock pools. Also occurs in sandy bottoms around the cover of woody debris and in flooded lagoons. Solitary (Ref. 44894). Feeds on aquatic insects, mollusks, prawns and bottom detritus (Ref. 5259). Feeds by thrusting its snout into the sandy bottom. Nothing is specific is known about the breeding biology, but it probably spawns early in the wet season (Ref. 44894).

    Habitat

    demersal