Netuma patriciae

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Whipfin sea catfish
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Family: Ariidae
Genus: Netuma
Species:
N. patriciae
Binomial name
Netuma patriciae

Netuma patriciae, the whipfin sea catfish, is a species of catfish in the family Ariidae found in the Western Pacific Ocean from the Philippines. [1]

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Size

This species reaches a length of 30.3 cm (11.9 in). [2]

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of Patricia J. Kailola, of The University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji, because of her research on ariid catfishes. [3]

References

  1. ↑ Takahashi, Yumeka; Kimura, Seishi; Motomrua, Hiroyuki (2020-04-01). "A new sea catfish, Netuma patriciae (Siluriformes: Ariidae), from the Philippines" . Ichthyological Research. 67 (2): 264–273. doi:10.1007/s10228-019-00719-4. ISSN   1616-3915.
  2. ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Netuma patriciae". FishBase . February 2015 version.
  3. ↑ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order SILURIFORMES: Families CLARIIDAE, HETEROPNEUSTIDAE, ANCHARIIDAE and ARIIDA". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 2 May 2023.


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