Species Profile
Clarias batrachus
Magur
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassOsteichthyes
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Clarias batrachus lives in freshwater.
Omnivorous and hardy.
Adapted to low oxygen.
Size & Structure
01
Elongated body
02
Four pairs of barbels
03
Smooth skin
04
Dorsal fin long
Clarias batrachus — 3D Model
General Features
- Coelom
- Coelomate
- Body plan
- Tube within a tube body plan (Deuterostomous)
- Germ layer
- Triploblastic
- Metamerism
- Present
- Body symmetry
- Bilateral
- Fertilization
- External
- Digestion type
- Complete
- Nervous system
- Well developed
- Excretory organ
- Kidneys
- Body temperature
- Poikilothermic, stenohaline
- Circulatory type
- Closed circulation, single
- Development type
- Direct
- Respiratory type
- Branchial and accessory respiration
- Mode of excretion
- Ammonotelism
- Circulation system
- Closed
- Skeleton structure
- Endoskeleton
- Level of Organisation
- Organ system level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoregulator
Ecology
Scavenger and predator
Controls insects
Hardy freshwater species
Economic Importance
High-protein food fish
Aquaculture value
Medicinal importance