CRen, what the hell is your problem? Here is the link:
http://www.planetcatfish.com/core/index.htm
If you can read english, read it and come crawling back with your tail between your legs!
Here is the article:: from planetcatfish.com
Firstly I must thank for bringing the existence of this catfish to my attention.
It is labelled Phreatobius walkeri in the Guinness book, but this is a "nomen nudum" (literally a naked name) which means that this name is not scientifically valid and indeed cannot be used in future. It is the only known fish in the world that solely lives on land. Other fish species (including some otehr catfish) can spend some of their time on land, but not all their time. This makes this catfish the newest fish on land. As you can see it is a small, wormlike catfish and was found in the middle of the 1980s in Brazil. This species lives a full life on land among fallen leaves near the river. If it is returned to water, it will quickly jump out of it again.
This fish is currently placed in the Pimelodidae family but has many similarities with the Trichomycteridae. Its "halfway house" characteristics might even merit the creation of a new catfish family. Mnay authors consider this genus a junior synonym of Heptapterus.
Not surprisingly this species has yet to be imported as an aquarium fish. They are reportedly rare in the wild but this is more likely because of insufficient distribution data, unimportance to the local people and the small size of the fish than true scarcity.
http://www.planetcatfish.com/core/index.htm
If you can read english, read it and come crawling back with your tail between your legs!
Here is the article:: from planetcatfish.com
Firstly I must thank for bringing the existence of this catfish to my attention.
It is labelled Phreatobius walkeri in the Guinness book, but this is a "nomen nudum" (literally a naked name) which means that this name is not scientifically valid and indeed cannot be used in future. It is the only known fish in the world that solely lives on land. Other fish species (including some otehr catfish) can spend some of their time on land, but not all their time. This makes this catfish the newest fish on land. As you can see it is a small, wormlike catfish and was found in the middle of the 1980s in Brazil. This species lives a full life on land among fallen leaves near the river. If it is returned to water, it will quickly jump out of it again.
This fish is currently placed in the Pimelodidae family but has many similarities with the Trichomycteridae. Its "halfway house" characteristics might even merit the creation of a new catfish family. Mnay authors consider this genus a junior synonym of Heptapterus.
Not surprisingly this species has yet to be imported as an aquarium fish. They are reportedly rare in the wild but this is more likely because of insufficient distribution data, unimportance to the local people and the small size of the fish than true scarcity.
