Know your seafood variety
Marine Cat fish
Species: Arius spp
Marine catfish 1
Marine catfish 2
Scaleless, fish, distinct whiskers like barbels. Popular because of its
mild taste and limited bones.
Head shield rugose and granulated posterior to orbit, especially on the supraoccipital region tapering to a wide V
towards occipital region
Plate teeth villiform and densely packed in a small, roughly traingular patch on each side.
Tip of the dorsal fin produced occasionally into a black filament
They grow upto 180cm. Estuaries and insore waters clsoe to opening of river mouth at depth of 50meters.
Incubate egg in mouth.feed on shrimps, crabs and small fishes.
3 PAIRS OF BARBELS PRESENT, HEAD SHIELD RUGOSE AND GRANULATED.
First dorsal fin short with a long, oftern rough spine,
Pectoral fins low on sides, with a strong, mostly serrated spin
scales absent.
Gujarathi - Khago
Marathi - Shingala
Kannada - Shede / Galingi
Malayalam - Etta koori
Konkani - Sangot
Tamil - Keliru / Keluthi
Bengali - Muchal kanta
Meat whitish looking and firm. Less flaky, sweet & mild taste
