 Summary of helicophagus | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Identification | Helicophagus have a short and a large premaxillary toothplate; the vomerine toothplate without additional toothplate; the front border of the snout is pierced by anterior nostrils; the posterior nostrils are between and in line with the anterior nostrils and the middle of eye; a narrow mouth (<35% HL); a slender anterior part of snout length (<16.5% HL) (Gustiano & Pouyaud, 2008, Indonesian Aquaculture Journal, 3(1), 13-22. http://dx.doi.org/10.15578/iaj.3.1.2008.13-22). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Feeding | Gut contents of wild-caught specimens include primarily gastropod and bivalve mollusks. Some wild specimens also eat annelid worms similar to Tubifex. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Size | Smallest 377mm, largest 700mm, average 516mm, most commonly 472mm. All SL. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Species | There are 3 "species" in the database | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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/siluriformes/pangasiidae/helicophagus/leptorhynchus/1.jpg "Helicophagus leptorhynchus - Click for species page")
/siluriformes/pangasiidae/helicophagus/typus/1.jpg "Helicophagus typus - Click for species page")
