Ompok bimaculatus

Butter catfish
Conservation status
Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Siluriformes
Family:	Siluridae
Genus:	Ompok
Species:	O. bimaculatus
Binomial name
Ompok bimaculatus (Bloch, 1794)
Synonyms
Silurus bimaculatus Bloch, 1794 Callichrous bimaculatus (Bloch, 1794) Pseudosilurus bimaculatus (Bloch, 1794) Wallago bimaculatus (Bloch, 1794) Silurus chechra Hamilton, 1822 Callichrous chechra (Hamilton, 1822) Silurus duda Hamilton, 1822 Silurus affinis Swainson, 1839 Silurus nebulosus Swainson, 1839 Callichrous nebulosus (Swainson, 1839) Callichrus nebulosus (Swainson, 1839) Silurus microcephalus Valenciennes, 1840 Wallago microcephalus (Valenciennes, 1840) Silurus mysoricus Valenciennes, 1840 Pseudosilurus macropthalmos Blyth, 1860

Butter catfish (Pabda), West Bengal, India

Ompok bimaculatus, known as butter catfish, is a species of sheatfishes native to Asian countries such as Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, but recently identified in Myanmar. It also indetified in Mekong Basin of Vietnam

Ompok bimaculatus Day

Known in Thailand as pla cha-on (ปลาชะโอน), it is one of the very similar catfish species known in the markets as pla nuea on (วงศ์ปลาเนื้ออ่อน). It is valued for its delicate flesh and is also used for making high-quality fish balls. O. bimaculatus reaches a maximum length of 45 cm. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has classified this species as near threatened due to limited data suggesting overfishing and possibly widespread population declines, noting uncertain identities of populations classified as O. bimaculatus and concluding that there is an "urgent need for taxonomic, harvest and population studies".