Carlarius heudelotii

BéarlaDiagnosis: body elongated and rounded; head broad and only slightly flattened above; snout rounded; mouth inferior; maxillary barbels reaching to pectoral fin bases, mandibular ones being shorter; osseous head shield fairly visible through the skin, coarsely rugose; occipital process rather narrow at base, tapering towards its distal end, with a median keel; predorsal plate short, very rugose and crescent-shaped; premaxillary teeth villiform, forming a plate slightly curved; palatine teeth usually in a single pair of small rounded patches, widely separated, when present, by a space much greater than their diameter; sometimes 1 or both patches absent; usually no, infrequently 1-2 tiny, gill-rakers on posterior face of 1st and 2nd branchial arch; total number of anterior gill-rakers on first arch: 13-15; dorsal fin short with a long, osseous, more or less serrated spine preceded by a very short one; dorsal and pectoral fins with a strong serrated, erectile spine; adipose fin well developed; caudal fin forked, with long and pointed lobes (Ref. 57224). Coloration: olive-brown above, silvered on sides, belly white (Ref. 57224).

• Tachysurus heudelotii (Valenciennes, 1840)
• Bagrus goreensis Guichenot, 1858
• Arius mercatoris Poll, 1949
• Arius heudelotii Valenciennes, 1840
• Tachysurus mercatoris (Poll, 1949)
• Arius heudeloti Valenciennes, 1840