SILURIFORMES FISH OBSERVED BY FSIS PERSONNEL

ORDER: SILURIFORMES

ACCEPTABLE FAMILY COMMON OR USUAL AND SPECIES NAMES

Bagre chihuil, chihuil Bagre panamensis

Gillbacker, Gilleybaka, or Whiskerfish Sciades parkeri

Asian river bagrid fish Hemibagrus spilopterus

Red Hemibagrus wyckioides

Gangetic mystus Mystus cavasius

Long-whiskers fish Mystus gulio

Tengara fish Mystus tengara

Striped dwarf fish Mystus vittatus

Rita Rita rita

Rita sacerdotum Salween rita

Sperata aor Long-whiskered fish : Mystus aor

Baga ayre Sperata seenghala

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ORDER: SILURIFORMES

ACCEPTABLE FAMILY COMMON OR USUAL GENUS AND SPECIES NAMES

Walking Clarias Fish Clarias batrachus

Clariidae

Whitespotted fish or Clarias fuscus

Chinese fish

Sharptooth Clarias Fish Clarias gariepinus

Broadhead Clarias Fish Clarias macrocephalus

Brown Hoplo Hoplosternum littorale Callichthyidae Hassar

Heteropneustidae

Stinging fish Heteropneustes fossilis Blue or Catfish Ictalurus furcatus Channel Catfish or Catfish Ictalurus punctatus White Catfish or Catfish Ameiurus catus Black Bullhead Ictaluridae or Bullhead or Catfish Ameiurus melas Yellow Bullhead or Bullhead or Catfish Ameiurus natalis Brown Bullhead or Bullhead or Catfish Ameiurus nebulosus Flat Bullhead or Bullhead or Catfish Ameiurus platycephalus Swai, Sutchi, Striped Pangasianodon (or Pangasius) Pangasiidae Pangasius, or Tra hypophthalmus

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ORDER: SILURIFORMES

ACCEPTABLE FAMILY COMMON OR USUAL GENUS AND SPECIES NAMES

Basa Pangasius bocourti Giant Pangasius Pangasius gigas Giant Pangasius Pangasius sanitwongsei Yellowtail Pangasius Pangasius pangasius

Lau-lau, Kumakuma, Piraiba Brachyplatystoma filamentosum

Pimelodidae Marbled Pim, Sailfin Pimeloid marmoratus Cachara, Striped Surubim, Reticulated shovelnose Pseudoplatystoma reticulatum

Batashi acutirostris

Schilbeidae

Gangetic

Jamuna Ailia Ailiichthys punctata or

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ORDER: SILURIFORMES

ACCEPTABLE FAMILY COMMON OR USUAL GENUS AND SPECIES NAMES

Bacha, Batchwa vacha vacha

Neotropius atherinoides or Potasi, Indian potasi atherinoides

Silond fish, Silond silondia

Siluridae Sheatfish Silurus glanis

Butter fish, glass fish Ompok bimaculatus

Pabdah fish Ompok pabda

Freshwater shark,

Wallago, Giant sheatfish Wallago attu

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ORDER: SILURIFORMES

ACCEPTABLE FAMILY COMMON OR USUAL GENUS AND SPECIES NAMES

Phalacronotus bleekeri Bleeker’s sheatfish, Synonyms: Kryptopterus bleekeri;

Whisker sheatfish Micronema bleekeri

Goonch, Ayres bagarius

Goonch, Giant devil fish

Reference sources: Integrated Taxonomic Information System, https://itis.gov/ ; FishBase, http://fishbase.org/search.php; U.S. Food and Drug Administration, The Seafood List, https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/fdcc/index.cfm?set=seafoodlist

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