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Teleostei (teleosts) > Siluriformes (Catfishes) > Siluridae (Sheatfishes)
Etymology: Ompok: It is a bad reproduction of a Malayam fish name as limpok/ompok (Ref. 45335).

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Freshwater; brackish; demersal. Tropical

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Asia: Terengganu, Selangor, Perak and Pahang (Peninsular Malaysia); Pulau Bintan (Riau Archipelago), as well as Kalimantan Barat and Kalimantan Tengah (Borneo).

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Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 15.0 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 57235)

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Anal soft rays: 53 - 60

Inhabits stenotopic to peats (Ref. 57235). Collected from shallow blackwaters in a peat swamp heavily disturbed by logging activities. Feed mainly on insect larvae, with adults eating fish instead. Previously known as O. leiacanthus newly described by Tan & Ng (1996) (Ref. 57235).

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Tan, T.H.T. and P.K.L. Ng, 1996. Catfishes of the Ompok leiacanthus (Bleeker, 1853) species group (Teleostei: Siluridae) from Southeast Asia, with description of a new species. Raffles Bull. Zool. 44(2):531-542. (Ref. 41243)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

Near Threatened (NT) (A3c); Date assessed: 26 December 2019

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

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Ompok fumidus Tan & Ng, 1996