Known to be a very secretive species, the E. kelioides burrows in submerged peat soil, leaf litter and root mats, and can easily evade detection by the untrained eye.
A certain species of catfish was recently discovered to be residing in the moist, humid habitat of Singapore’s only remaining freshwater swamp – all this while eluding scientists who have been conducting extensive surveys there for 30 years.
Dr Tan Heok Hui, a curator of fish at the National University of Singapore’s Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum in its Faculty of Science, said the E. kelioides species was found for the first time in a forest stream in the Central Catchment Nature Reserve in August 2022. Known to be a very secretive species, the E. kelioides burrows in submerged peat soil, leaf litter and root mats, and can easily evade detection by the untrained eye, he added.
“We had to check carefully to ensure the fish was not one of our native clariid species that had a damaged dorsal fin.”
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