Ng & Hadiaty, 2011
Clarias microspilus, a new walking catfish (Teleostei: Clariidae) from northern Sumatra, Indonesia.Abstract:
Clarias microspilus, a new species of walking catfish is described from the short coastal rivers draining the western face of the Leuser Mountain Range and debouching into the Indian Ocean in Nangroe Aceh Darussalam province, northern Sumatra, Indonesia. It can be distinguished from Southeast Asian congeners in having a combination of the following characters: distance between the tip of the occipital process and the base of the first dorsal-fin ray 6.5–9.2 % SL; body depth at anus 14.9–18.9 % SL; head width 18.6–21.7 % SL; head depth 12.9–16.0 % SL; interorbital distance 40.5–44.5 % HL; occipital process width 31.7–40.8% HL; 64–68 dorsal-fin rays; 51–56 anal-fin rays; anterior tip of frontal fontanel reaching line through middle of orbit; anterior margin of pectoral spine with 22–34 serrations and posterodorsal margin smooth.
Heok Hee Ng & Renny K. Hadiaty
Journal of Threatened Taxa, 3 (3): 1577-1584, 2011.