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Walking catfish

Clarias batrachus
Malunga negama: It is named for its ability to 'walk' and wiggle across dry land to find food or better places to live.1
Kubuhlungu njeMusa ukuchukumisaKubuhlungu, kodwa akusayi kukwenzakalisa kakhulu.
Iintlanzi ezinetyhefu Amava anetyhefuSitya: Kancinci kwento nganye
Ingozi ebantwini: KubuhlunguKunokuba buhlungu ngokwenene, kodwa phantse akusoze kube kubi kakhulu.

The walking catfish is a freshwater fish that can crawl across wet land to reach new water. It lives in Southeast Asia and has also been introduced to places such as Florida. Its spiny defence is the reason it needs careful handling.1

Sihlala
Native to maritime Southeast Asia; introduced to Florida and other US states1
IAsiya
Ekhaya
It lives in slow-moving or stagnant water, including ponds, swamps, streams, rivers, flooded rice paddies and temporary pools that may dry up. It is often found in muddy ponds, canals and ditches, mostly on or near the bottom.1
Ubude
50 cm (1,6 ft)1
Ubunzima
1,2 kg (2,6 lb)1
Esona santya siphezulu
malunga ne-6 km/h (3,7 mph)
Ukuqubha, uqikelelo nje
Sitya ntoni?
It eats smaller fish, molluscs and other invertebrates, as well as detritus and aquatic weeds. It is a fast, voracious eater that uses up food supplies quickly.1
Ngokwenene!Ifoto ka-Walking catfish
Walking catfish. Ifoto: Wie146. CC BY-SA 4.0, iNaturalist.

Indlela yokusiqaphela

  • Elongated body, grey or grey-brown in colour1
  • Often covered on its sides with small white spots1
  • Long dorsal and anal fins, and several pairs of sensory barbels1
  • Scaleless skin covered in mucus1
  • No adipose fin, a small fleshy fin on the back near the tail1

Sidla ngokubhidaniswa no: It is often confused with North American ictalurid catfish and with close relatives such as C. magur. The walking catfish can be told apart from the North American ictalurid catfish because it lacks an adipose fin.1

Amandla etyhefu yokuluma nokuhlaba

Amava anetyhefu

Amava abukhali aphethe ityhefu. Ukusinyathela okanye ukusibamba kubuhlungu.

Siyingozi kangakanani ebantwini?

Ingozi ebantwini: KubuhlunguKunokuba buhlungu ngokwenene, kodwa phantse akusoze kube kubi kakhulu.

It must be handled carefully when fished because of its embedded sting or thorn-like spines. It is also harmful as an invasive species, because it eats the food of native fish, preys on their young and can destroy fish farms.1

Senza ntoni xa soyika?

It has a sting or thorn-like spine hidden behind its fins, which it uses to defend itself.1

Ukuba amava aso ayakugwaza

  • Faka inxeba emanzini ashushu, ashushu kangangoko umntu angakwazi ukunyamezela ngaphandle kokutshiswa (wavavanye ngesandla sakho), imizuzu engama-30 ukuya kwengama-90. Fumana uncedo lwezonyango, ingakumbi kwii-stonefish nakwii-stingray.

Soloko utsalela inombolo kaxakeka kuqala (112, 000, 911). Esi sisikhokelo soncedo lokuqala ngokubanzi, asilocebiso lwezonyango. Iziseko zoncedo lokuqala

Hlala ukhuselekile

  • Ungaze uchukumise, ubambe okanye uqhule isilwanyana sasendle, nokuba sincinci, kwaye nokuba sibonakala silele okanye sifile.
  • Sinike indawo. Ukuba udibana naso, hlala uzolile, buyela umva kancinci kwaye usiyeke sihambe ngendlela yaso.
  • Ukuba amava aso ayakugwaza: hlala uzolile, musa ukushukuma, tsalela inombolo kaxakeka (112, 000, 911) okanye uye esibhedlele ngokukhawuleza. Khumbula ukuba sasikhangeleka njani, ifoto iyanceda.

Asikuzingeli. Sisebenzisa ityhefu yaso ukubamba ukutya okanye ukuzikhusela, kwaye singakhetha ukuzimela. Okungakumbi malunga nokuhlala ukhuselekile

Sikhulu kangakanani?

Side kangakanani?

Walking catfish malunga ne-50 cm ubude (1,6 ft)Ikati yasekhaya malunga ne-50 cm (1,6 ft)Inja malunga ne-1 m (3,3 ft)

Sinzima kangakanani?

ubunzima obulingana neebhanana eziyi-10
ubude obulingana neebhanana eziyi-3 zilandelelanaubude obulingana neebhloko zokudlala zokwakha eziyi-16 zilandelelanasingaqubha ubude bechibi elikhulu lokuqubha (50 m) ngemizuzwana eyi-30

U-Walking catfish mkhulu kangakanani xa uthelekisa NAWE?

Zizibalo nje kwibhrawuza yakho. Akukho nto igcinwayo okanye ithunyelwa naphi na.

Sikhawuleza kangakanani?

kufanelekile ukwazi

Iinyaniso

1

It can survive 18 hours out of water.1

2

It moves over land with snake-like wiggles, using its pectoral fins to stay upright.1

3

In Florida, fish farmers have had to put up fences to protect their ponds from them.1

4

It often rises to the surface to gulp air, because it breathes air as well as using water.1

5

Walking catfish were imported to Florida in the early 1960s for aquaculture, and escapes led to wild populations.1

6

In Indonesia it is known as lele and is the main ingredient in dishes such as pecel lele.1

Umqhekezi weentsomi

Intsomi: The walking catfish truly walks on land like a four-legged or two-legged animal.

Inyaniso: It does not walk in that way. It uses its pectoral fins to stay upright while it wiggles its body in snake-like movements.1

Kwiingcali zetyhefu

Igama lenzululwazi
Clarias batrachus
Iqela
Iintlanzi ezinetyhefu
Usapho
Clariidae2
Ucwangco
Siluriformes
Amazwekazi
IAsiya
Ingozi ebantwini
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Apho iinyaniso zivela khona

  1. Walking catfish (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Clarias batrachus (iNaturalist): amagama nokuhlelwa.
  3. Venom Wiki: inqanaba lengozi, ubungakanani obuqhelekileyo noqikelelo lwesantya zezethu. Bona indlela esizifumana ngayo: Indlela esilinganisa ngayo ingozi.

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