Ripsaw catfish
Amazing fact
The ripsaw catfish eats seeds and fruit as well as animals such as snails.
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The ripsaw catfish eats seeds and fruit as well as animals such as snails.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Ripsaw catfish
- Scientific name
- Oxydoras niger
- Japanese name
- オキシドラス
- Group
- Freshwater animals
- Order
- Siluriformes
- Family
- Doradidae
- Genus
- Oxydoras
How the Ripsaw catfish lives
It tends to live in large rivers. Mud and decomposing leaves have also been found in its stomach. After spawning, it makes a large migration upriver as the water level starts to fall.
University of Michigan Animal Diversity WebBasic data
- Size
- Total length: up to 60 cm
- Range
- Amazon River
Where the Ripsaw 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
- オキシドラス
- 简体中文
- 黑体尖陶乐鲶
- 繁體中文
- 黑體尖陶樂鯰
- Español
- Bagre hueso
- Deutsch
- Schwarzer Dornwels
- Português (Brasil)
- Tuiú
- Русский
- Чёрная оксидора
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 — オキシドラスChecked: 2026-11-04
- University of Michigan Animal Diversity Web — Oxydoras nigerChecked: 2026-11-06
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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