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