Glass catfish
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An illustration based on the real animal.
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Glass catfish eat insects and some small fish.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Glass catfish
- Scientific name
- Kryptopterus bicirrhis
- Japanese name
- トランスルーセントグラスキャットフィッシュ
- Group
- Freshwater animals
- Order
- Siluriformes
- Family
- Siluridae
- Genus
- Kryptopterus
How the Glass catfish lives
It lives in rivers and streams of Southeast Asia.
Shedd AquariumBasic data
- Range
- Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia
Where the Glass 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
- 简体中文
- 双须缺鳍鲇
- 繁體中文
- 雙鬚缺鰭鯰
- 한국어
- 글래스캣피시
- Español
- Siluro o gato de cristal
- Deutsch
- Indischer Glaswels
- Português (Brasil)
- Peixe-gato de vidro
- Italiano
- Siluro di vetro indiano
- العربية
- سمكة الشفافة
- Tiếng Việt
- Cá thủy tinh
- Türkçe
- Cam kedibalığı
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 — トランスルーセントグラスキャットフィッシュChecked: 2026-11-04
- Shedd Aquarium — Glass 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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