The walking catfish is a freshwater, air-breathing catfish native to Southeast Asia, named for its ability to wiggle its way across dry land using its pectoral fins and a snakelike motion of its body to reach new water when its slow-moving ponds, swamps or rice paddies dry up. It can survive as long as eighteen hours out of water, and is distinguished from similar-looking North American catfish partly by its lack of an adipose fin.
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Classification
System (Realm) Living or ExtinctDerived from this species' own Conservation Status: this atlas's IUCN category list has no Extinct value, so a set conservation-status is itself evidence of living status (w-bfill-g5-0924 browse backfill). Scientific Name Conservation Status Sources
1. Wikipedia: Walking catfish
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The walking catfish (Clarias batrachus) is a species of freshwater airbreathing catfish native to Southeast Asia.
2. Walking Catfish (Wikipedia)
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The walking catfish (Clarias batrachus) is a species of freshwater airbreathing catfish native to Southeast Asia.
Infobox, conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
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