Biology:Netuma patriciae
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Short description: Species of fish
| Whipfin sea catfish | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Ariidae |
| Genus: | Netuma |
| Species: | N. patriciae
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| Binomial name | |
| Netuma patriciae Y. Takahashi, Seishi Kimura & Motomura, 2019
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Netuma patriciae, the whipfin sea catfish, is a species of catfish in the family Ariidae found in the Western Pacific Ocean from the Philippines . [1]
Size
This species reaches a length of 30.3 cm (11.9 in).[2]
Etymology
The fish is named in honor of Patricia J. Kailola, of The University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji, because of her research on ariid catfishes.[3]
References
- ↑ Takahashi, Yumeka; Kimura, Seishi; Motomrua, Hiroyuki (2020-04-01). "A new sea catfish, Netuma patriciae (Siluriformes: Ariidae), from the Philippines" (in en). Ichthyological Research 67 (2): 264–273. doi:10.1007/s10228-019-00719-4. ISSN 1616-3915. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10228-019-00719-4.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2015). "Netuma patriciae" in FishBase. February 2015 version.
- ↑ "Order SILURIFORMES: Families CLARIIDAE, HETEROPNEUSTIDAE, ANCHARIIDAE and ARIIDA". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. 22 September 2018. http://www.etyfish.org/siluriformes9/.
Wikidata ☰ Q90119703 entry
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