stinging catfish

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stinging catfish (plural stinging catfish or stinging catfishes)

1. Heteropneustes fossilis, a catfish of India and Southeast Asia.
   • 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:

     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).