Cinetodus
Appearance
Cinetodus | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Siluriformes |
Family: | Ariidae |
Subfamily: | Ariinae |
Genus: | Cinetodus J. D. Ogilby, 1898 |
Type species | |
Arius froggatti E. P. Ramsay & J. D. Ogilby, 1886
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Synonyms | |
Septobranchus Hardenberg, 1941 |
Cinetodus is a genus of sea catfishes (order Siluriformes) of the family Ariidae. These species originate from brackish and fresh waters of Irian Jaya, southern New Guinea and northern Australia.[1]
Species
[edit]This genus currently contains three described species:[2]
- Cinetodus carinatus (M. C. W. Weber, 1913) – comb-spined catfish
- Cinetodus conorhynchus (M. C. W. Weber, 1913) – Lorentz catfish
- Cinetodus crassilabris (E. P. Ramsay & J. D. Ogilby, 1886) – thick-lipped catfish
- Cinetodus froggatti (E. P. Ramsay & J. D. Ogilby, 1886) – Froggatt's catfish, smallmouthed salmon catfish
References
[edit]- ^ 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). Species of Cinetodus in FishBase. December 2011 version.