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Scientific Name	**Batasio merianiensis** (Chaudhuri, 1913)
Common Name	Royal Bengal Tiger (Indian)
Type Locality	Pond at Mariani Junction, Brahmaputra River drainage, northeastern Assam, India.
Synonym(s)	Macrones merianiensis
Pronunciation	bah tah see oh - meh ria nee en sis
Etymology	The genus name comes from the local (Bengali) name of the fish (batasio or batashi). This species is named after its type locality.
Species Information
Identification	The bagrid genus Batasio Blyth comprises of small, laterally compressed catfishes distributed in South and Southeast Asia, diagnosed from its confamilials in having large sensory pores on the head, a narrow mental region, a pair of posteriorly-directed processes on the anterior part of vomer, a transversely-elongated bar-like entopterygoid, and the metapterygoid in close contact with the quadrate but free from the hyomandibular (Mo, 1991). Batasio merianiensis is diagnosed from congeners in having a combination of the following characters: length of adipose-fin base 16.9–22.2 % SL, dorsal fin when appressed not reaching anterior origin of adipose fin, body depth at anus 15.2–18.4% SL, caudal peduncle depth 9.7–11.5% SL, eye diameter 18.3–25.9% HL, vertical dark brown bars on head and body, and absence of dark mid-dorsal stripe.
Sexing	Not known.
General Remarks	See also Redescription of Batasio merianiensis, a catfish (Teleostei:Bagridae) from northeastern India,Heok Hee Ng.
Habitat Information
Distribution	Asia: India. Indian waters, North Eastern India Waters, Padma, Jamuna, Brahmaputra (click on these areas to find other species found there) Indian waters, Assam State Waters (click on these areas to find other species found there) Log in to view data on a map.
IUCN Red List Category	Data Deficient, range map and more is available on the IUCN species page. Last assessed 2009.
Temperature	20.5-25.0°C or 68.9-77°F (Show species within this range)
Other Parameters	The water should be cool and heavily oxygenated with a good flow as these fish occur in hill streams.Anything above 25 C will hamper long term survival as these fish tend to burn away at higher temperatures.
Husbandry Information
Feeding	Is known to take processed food but prefers live food like blood worms, frozen brine shrimp etc. Needs sometime to gradually get weaned off live foods. Spot feeding will help in case tank mates are voracious feeders. User data.
Furniture	Fine sand for the bottom and smooth pebbles / rocks. Cover / hiding spots can be created with either plants or wood.
Compatibility	A peaceful species suitable for a hillstream biotope.
Suggested Tankmates	Peaceful Cyprinids like Puntius or Oreichthys and Balitorine loaches like Schistura or Nemacheilus species.
Breeding	Unreported in the aquarium.
Breeding Reports	There is no breeding report.
Further Information
Reference	Records of the Indian Museum (Calcutta) v. 8 (pt 3), pp 253, Pl. 9 (figs. 1, 1a-b).
Registered Keepers	There is no registered keeper.
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Last Update	2020 Oct 28 16:17 (species record created: 2009 Aug 16 03:25)