Silurus glanis Linnaeus, 1758

Artaev, Oleg & Ruchin, Alexander B., 2017, The ichthyofauna of the Moksha River, a tributary of the Volga river basin, Russia, Check List 13 (4), pp. 185-202 : 198

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.15560/13.4.185
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5479940
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treatment provided by	Marcus
scientific name	Silurus glanis Linnaeus, 1758
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Silurus glanis Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL , Wels Catfish.

Silurus glanis Linnaeus 1758: 304 View in CoL View Cited Treatment — Kottelat and Freyhof 2007: 340.

Material examined. Table 1.

Presence of two pairs of mental barbels and 83–91 total anal-fin rays. This is the sole species of the family Siluridae in the Volga river drainage. According to our observations, it inhabits only rivers to 25 km from the source. Its abundance increased with river enlargement from 0.6 to 5.9%, and its occurrence rate from 3.8 to 15.4%.