Lacandon sea catfish
Appearance
Lacandon sea catfish | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Siluriformes |
Family: | Ariidae |
Genus: | Potamarius |
Species: | P. nelsoni
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Binomial name | |
Potamarius nelsoni (Evermann & Goldsborough, 1902)
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Synonyms[1] | |
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The Lacandon sea catfish[2] (Potamarius nelsoni) is a species of catfish in the family Ariidae.[3] It was described by Barton Warren Evermann and Edmund Lee Goldsborough in 1902, originally under the genus Conorhynchos.[1] It is known from the Usumacinta River, in Mexico. It reaches a maximum standard length of 39 cm (15 in).[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Synonyms of Potamarius nelsoni at www.fishbase.org.
- ^ Common names of Potamarius nelsoni at www.fishbase.org.
- ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2019). "Potamarius nelsoni" in FishBase. July 2019 version.