CATFISH GOONCH

Nov 26, 2012 Lorenzo Martinez Bernal BIG FISH, TORPEDO 0

CATFISH GOONCH

EL CATFISH GOONCH, CATFISH CATFISH Maneater O DEVIL, IT HAS BEEN ACCUSED OF SEVERAL ATTACKS ON HUMANS DEADLY, Mahakali RIVER IN WESTERN INDIA BORDER NEPALCON.

It is believed that CATFISH GOONCH It has developed a taste for human flesh through eating HUMAN REMAINS OF pyres, PERFORMING IN riverbanks, Where they burn the bodies..

BELONGS TO THE ORDER OF SILURIFORMES FAMILIA Sisoridae

CATFISH GOONCH

Its scientific name is bagarius yarrelli, also it is known as catfish Devil, the Goonch , It is a kind of catfish in the genus bagarius.

Currently the standard is to recognize two species of bagarius Indian Subcontinent: first bagarius B., supposedly a small species (until 20 cm or 7,9) It was first described in 1822 by Francis Buchanan-Hamilton based on a sample of the Ganges. The second is yarrelli B., supposedly a very large species (until 2 o 6,6 pies) It was first described in 1839 by William Henry Sykes based on a sample Mula-Mutha from Rio.

Bagarius species inhabit South and Southeast Asia. They are distributed in the Indus Basin in Pakistan and India, East (including peninsular India) for draining the Red River in Vietnam and south throughout Indochina , including the Malay Peninsula and Indonesia. B. bagarius is known by the Ganges River, Chao Phrayay drains Mekong , and the Malay Peninsula and the Salween and Mae Klong River drains and the Brahmaputra River and. B. suchus originates in the basins of the Mekong and Chao Phraya. B. rutilus inhabits the Red River and Ma River in North Vietnam. B. yarelli is widely distributed in South and Southeast Asia

CATFISH GOONCH

DESCRIPTION

The Goonch catfish has a very broad head. The mouth is wide, the dorsal and pectoral fins have strong thorns. The backbone of the dorsal fin is smooth, and the backbone of the pectoral fin is smooth anterior and subsequently finely serrated. The dorsal lobes, pectoral and caudal , sometimes with filamentous extensions. The head and the body is completely or nearly completely covered by skin strongly keratinized, Superficial skin differs plates or tubers unculiferous, lack apparatus thoracic adhesive.

CATFISH Goonch MOUTH HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE REST OF SILURIFORMES, They ARE HAVING SERVED TEETH great mouthfuls to tear their prey.

The Goonch catfish becomes very large, reaching approximately two meters in length and weight hundred kilos.

When migration occurs up tents rio, faithfull usually the rainy season,when the current is very strong and the water is murky, the siluros Goonch they gather in banks and trace the river behind their prey.

El Torpedo Goonch, it has become an object of media attention, there have been reports of some of these fish that feed on the funeral pyres in the Kali River. There is speculation that some drownings have also been caused by large specimens that have “developed a taste” for human flesh from the corpses and subsequently they have attacked bathers in the river.