| 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 |
| Binomial name | |
| Nedystoma novaeguineae (Weber, 1913) | |
| 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]
References
- 1 2 Synonyms of Nedystoma novaeguineae at www.fishbase.org.
- ↑ Common names of Nedystoma novaeguineae at www.fishbase.org.
- 1 2 Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2019). "Nedystoma novaeguineae" in FishBase. January 2019 version.
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