Amissidens hainesi

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Amissidens hainesi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Siluriformes Family: Ariidae Subfamily: Ariinae Genus: Amissidens Kailola, 2004 Species: A. hainesi
Binomial name
Amissidens hainesi (Kailola, 2000)
Synonyms
Arius hainesi Kailola, 2000

Amissidens hainesi is the only species of catfish (order Siluriformes) in the genus Amissidens of the family Ariidae.^[1] This species occurs in marine and brackish waters on the southern coast of New Guinea and Northern Australia, between Darwin and southern Gulf of Carpentaria.^[1][2]

The eyes are large. The lips are fleshy and thin and the mouth is small and almost quadrangular.^[2] The barbels are thin and short; the maxillary barbels only reach just beyond eye, and the bases of the chin barbels are close together. The fin spines are thin, long, slender. The adipose fin has a short base and is over the posterior two-thirds of the anal fin. The ventral fin pad of sexually mature females is scalloped and tapered. It is dark grey above and iridescent purple.^[3] This fish reaches about 30.2 centimetres (11.9 in) SL.^[2]

[edit] References

1. ^ ^{a b} Ferraris, Carl J., Jr. (2007). "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types" (PDF). Zootaxa 1418: 1–628. 
2. ^ ^{a b c} Marceniuk, Alexandre P.; Menezes, Naércio A. (2007). "Systematics of the family Ariidae (Ostariophysi, Siluriformes), with a redefinition of the genera" (PDF). Zootaxa 1416: 1–126. 
3. ^ "Arius hainesi". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. Aug 2007 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2007.