Amissidens hainesi
| Amissidens hainesi | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Ariidae |
| Genus: | Amissidens Kailola, 2004 |
| Species: | A. hainesi |
| Binomial name | |
| Amissidens hainesi (Kailola, 2000) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Arius hainesi | |
Amissidens hainesi, the Ridged catfish, 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]
References
- 1 2 Ferraris, Carl J., Jr. (2007). "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1418: 1–628.
- 1 2 3 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.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). "Arius hainesi" in FishBase. December 2011 version.