🐟
Wels catfish
Silurus glanis
Fish · Least concern
vs
🐠
Siamese fighting fish
Betta splendens
Fish · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
1,450 views between them.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
168 kg
🐟 Wels catfish · AnAge
no figure yet
🐠 Siamese fighting fish
Body length
2.73 m
🐟 Wels catfish · FishBase
0.07 m
🐠 Siamese fighting fish · FishBase
Maximum lifespan
60 yr
🐟 Wels catfish · AnAge
2 yr
🐠 Siamese fighting fish · AnAge
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 Neopterygii (subclass), home to 37,674 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.