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Wolff's catfish

Mystus wolffii (Bleeker, 1851)

Status not recordedbony fish

The wolff's catfish (Mystus wolffii) is a species in the family Bagridae, order Siluriformes.

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Quick facts about the wolff's catfish

Weight
Not recorded
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
Not recorded

Where does the wolff's catfish live?

Not recorded

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the wolff's catfish as introduced in 1 country.

  1. Singapore

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is the wolff's catfish endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is the wolff's catfish classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classTeleostei
  4. orderSiluriformes
  5. familyBagridae
  6. genusMystus
  7. SpeciesMystus wolffii (Bleeker, 1851)

Synonyms Bagrus wolffii, Hypselobagrus wolffii, Macrones wolffii, Mystus wolffi

Other names and names in other languages (2)
  • sumíček WolffůvCzech
  • ปลาแขยงนวลThai

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the wolff's catfish

Other species in the same genus Mystus.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Is the wolff's catfish an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the wolff's catfish as introduced in 1 country: Singapore, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is the wolff's catfish?

The wolff's catfish (Mystus wolffii) belongs to the family Bagridae in the order Siluriformes.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Wolff's catfish (Mystus wolffii). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/wolffs-catfish

MLA

“Wolff's catfish (Mystus wolffii).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/wolffs-catfish.

BibTeX
@misc{wolffs_catfish_2026,
  title = {Wolff's catfish (Mystus wolffii)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/wolffs-catfish},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}