stinging catfish
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Heteropneustes fossilis, a catfish of India and Southeast Asia.
- Heteropneustes spp., the stinging catfishes of family Heteropneustidae, are distributed in freshwater habitats of Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam (Berra, 2007).2013 December, M. Shahadat Hossain, Subrata Sarker, S.M. Sharifuzzaman, Sayedur Rahman Chowdhury, “New species of stinging catfish Heteropneustes nani (Siluriformes: Heteropneustidae) from Noakhali, Bangladesh”, in Vertebrate Zoology, volume 63, number 3, Frankfurt: Senckenberg Nature Research Society, →DOI, →ISSN, page 259, column 1: