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Wels catfish
Silurus glanis
Fish · Least concern
vs
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Hypostomus plecostomus
Hypostomus plecostomus
Fish · Least concern
One clip names both of them
879 views between them.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
168 kg
🐟 Wels catfish · AnAge
no figure yet
🐟 Hypostomus plecostomus
Body length
2.73 m
🐟 Wels catfish · FishBase
0.28 m
🐟 Hypostomus plecostomus · FishBase
Maximum lifespan
60 yr
🐟 Wels catfish · AnAge
no figure yet
🐟 Hypostomus plecostomus
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
Animals caught on camera
Real footage of the animals on this site — hunting, fighting, and getting on with it.
Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Siluriformes (order), home to 4,543 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.