Estuarine sea catfish
| Estuarine sea catfish | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Ariidae |
| Genus: | Cathorops |
| Species: | C. aguadulce |
| Binomial name | |
| Cathorops aguadulce (Meek, 1904) | |
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The estuarine sea catfish (Cathorops aguadulce), also known as the Aguadulce sea catfish,[2] is a species of sea catfish in the family Ariidae.[3] It was described by Seth Eugene Meek in 1904, originally under the genus Galeichthys.[4] It is a tropical fish which is known from Mexico to Guatemala, where it typically inhabits freshwater rivers, lagoons, and drainages, also sometimes dwelling in marine waters. It reaches a maximum standard length of 22.7 cm (8.9 in).[3]
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- ↑ Synonyms of Cathorops aguadulce at www.fishbase.org.
- ↑ Common names of Cathorops aguadulce at www.fishbase.org.
- 1 2 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). "Cathorops aguadulce" in FishBase. September 2016 version.
- ↑ Meek, S. E. 1904 (23 Sept.) [ref. 2958] The fresh-water fishes of Mexico north of the isthmus of Tehuantepec. Field Columbian Museum, Zoological Series v. 5: i-lxiii + 1-252, Pls. 1-17.
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