Gilded catfish
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The gilded catfish has been reported moving along rivers in pursuit of migrating fish.
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The gilded catfish has been reported moving along rivers in pursuit of migrating fish.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Gilded catfish
- Scientific name
- Zungaro zungaro
- Japanese name
- ジャウー
- Group
- Freshwater animals
- Order
- Siluriformes
- Family
- Pimelodidae
- Genus
- Zungaro
Where the name “Gilded catfish” comes from
The genus name Zungaro comes from a local name used for large pimelodid catfishes.
FishBaseHow the Gilded catfish lives
It hunts at night and feeds mainly on fish. It sometimes enters flood-prone parts of rivers. It lives on muddy river bottoms. The young grow in nursery grounds at river mouths.
FishBaseBasic data
- Range
- Middle Amazon River basin
Where the Gilded catfish has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- ジャウー
- 简体中文
- 祖鲁鲿
- 繁體中文
- 祖魯鱨
- Español
- Manguruyú negro
- Deutsch
- Zungarowels
- Português (Brasil)
- Jaú
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — ジャウーChecked: 2026-11-04
- FishBase — Zungaro zungaro, Gilded catfishChecked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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