The biological diversity and aquaculture of clariid and pangasiid catfishes in South-East Asia : proceedings of the mid-term workshop of the 'Catfish Asia project'

As part of an ongoing systematic revision of the South-East Asian #Clarias$ species, this paper presents the results of a morphometric study of 317 specimens from Indonesia : 255 of them who collected from the wild in Sumatra and Kalimantan and 62 came from fish culture stations in Java and Sumatra. The results obtained indicated the presence of five or six species : #Clarias batrachus$, #C. macrocephalus$ (?), #C. meladerma$, #C.leiacanthus$, #C. teijsmanni$ and #C. nieuhofii$. Preliminary identification characters are given. (Résumé d'auteur)