Biology:Spoon-snouted catfish

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Spoon-snouted catfish
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Family: Ariidae
Genus: Nedystoma
Species:
N. novaeguineae
Binomial name
Nedystoma novaeguineae
(Weber, 1913)
Synonyms[1]
  • Doiichthys novaeguineae Weber, 1913

The spoon-snouted catfish[2] (Nedystoma novaeguineae) is a species of catfish in the family Ariidae.[3] It was described by Max Carl Wilhelm Weber in 1913, originally under the genus Doiichthys.[1] It inhabits brackish and freshwaters in central-southern New Guinea. It reaches a maximum standard length of 15 cm (5.9 in).[3]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Synonyms of Nedystoma novaeguineae at www.fishbase.org.
  2. Common names of Nedystoma novaeguineae at www.fishbase.org.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Nedystoma novaeguineae" in FishBase. January 2019 version.

Wikidata ☰ Q749777 entry