Silurus asotus, commonly called the Amur catfish, Japanese common catfish, Far Eastern catfish, and Chinese catfish, is a carnivorous catfish species belonging to the Siluridae family. It lives in widespread distribution in freshwater habitats across East Asia and has a high aquaculture.

Silurus asotus, commonly called the Japanese common catfish, Amur catfish, Far Eastern catfish, and Chinese catfish, is a catfish species belonging to the Siluridae family. It lives in widespread distribution in freshwater habitats across East Asia and Japan.

2024年8月26日 · The Amur catfish is a species of catfish of Siluridae family. It is also called Silurus asotus or Japanese common catfish. It is a large freshwater fish and found in continental East Asia and in Japan. Currently it is widely available in East Asia.

2025年1月10日 · The Japanese common catfish, commonly known as the Amur Catfish, Far Eastern Catfish, and Chinese catfish, is a freshwater catfish distributed across East Asia and Japan. It is carnivorous and feeds on aquatic organisms, wherein its anatomy allows it to sink to the bottom and find food more easily.

“Silurus asotus is widely spread in East Asia. It is distributed from the Amur River Basin to Red River basin in northern Viet Nam including Korean Peninsula, Japan and Taiwan and Viet Nam (Berg 1964, Hwang et al.1982, Masuda et al. 1984, Shen 1993, Nguyen 1991, Kim et al. 2005).” From CABI (2016):

Adults feed on all types of fish (Ref. 41072). Recorded as having been or being farmed in rice fields (Ref. 119549). Pairs manifest spawning embrace widely observed in other catfish species (Ref. 37360).

2023年10月26日 · Silurus asotus is a large (maximum 130 cm) fish species of the order Siluriormes (catfish) mainly of value as a food fish but also as a sport fish (although rarely in Asia). It is native to East Asia including Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan, the Russian Far East and the Northern region of Vietnam.