The silure is a Poisson sometimes named wrongly catfish .

One counts today 14 identified species of silures (kind Silurus ) of which most known is the Silure glane.

Origin

In Europe, the silure is originating in the basin of the the Danube. After its introduction, for the sporting Fishing, often in an illegal way (in particular in the Pail), one finds it today in practically all the rivers and rivers of Europe (France, Germany, Italy, Spain) of second category.

Ethology

The silure is a discrete and solitary, lucifugous fish (which avoids the light), usually living in the major zones of its habitat. The silures are however able to make several tens of kilometers to gather in great number on zones of abrasion (always the same ones, without one being still able to explain the cause of it). The females lay then between 20 and 30.000 eggs per kg of their weight, always in a water of an higher temperature with 20°C, at the end of the printemps.
Certain specimens exceeding the 2,30 m and the 100 kilograms, the silure (like the pike) was a long time shown to be extrèmement voracious; one knows today that it of it is nothing, only the undervaluation of his population explaining the correlative reduction in the populations of shellfish, Amphibians of and especially of brèmes of which it is nourished. It should be noted that he eats also silures but in the event of lack of food in his entourage.

Species

• Silurus aristotelis Garman, 1890

• Silurus biwaensis (Tomoda, 1961)
• Wild Silurus chantrei , 1882
• Silurus duanensis Hu, Lan and Zhang, 2004
• Silurus gilberti Hora, 1938
• Silurus glanis Linnaeus, 1758 - - Silure glane
• Silurus grahami Regan, 1907
• Silurus lanzhouensis Chen, 1977
• Siloisjkn, dkoosiifiqs lithophilus (Tomoda, 1961)
• Silurus mento Regan, 1904
• Silurus meridionalis Chen, 1977
• Silurus microdorsalis (Mori, 1936)
• Silurus morehensis Arunkumar and Tombi Singh, 1997
• Silurus palavanensis (Herre, 1924)
• Silurus soldatovi Nikolskii and Care, 1948
• Silurus triostegus Heckel, 1843

breeding

This animal was and is high in X European countries. It is sometimes marketed under the Merval denomination.

External bonds

See too

• Poisson S
• List of fish
• List of fish of the lakes and rivers used in kitchen
• Pisciculture
• List of the livestock