Iraqi catfish

[octofasciatus]

It really looks like a clarias batrachus (walking catfish)

 

[zenyfish]

I understand these are an introduced species in Iraq:

http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=21219&p=119189&hilit=iraq#p119189

 

[channarox]

one of the clarias or a related species.

 

[snakeheader]

sweet looking little cat though,thanks for serving bro

 

[Smok3o3]

Nice catch! Would not mind having one of them

 

[Oddball]

Definitely not a clarias cat. Dorsal is all wrong. It' s fossil cat (Heteropneustes fossilis). And, as stated above, they have venom glands in the dorsal and pectoral spines. I got hit by one once and it felt like a hornet sting from hell.