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Marine Catfishes, Families Plotosidae and Ariidae: Four and twenty one
Indonesian species respectively
Shy to but one species, marine catfishes are seldom seen except fleetingly,
generally during the night, and individually... with one exception. The group
feeding, touring Plotosus lineatus.
| Euristhmus lepturus (Gunther 1864), the Long-tailed
Catfish. Indo-West Pacific. Northern Australia, New Guinea. To eighteen
inches in length. This one in the Singapore Aquarium's exhibit of
Dangerous/Venomous Fishes. |
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| Plotosus lineatus (Thunberg 1787), the Striped Eel
Catfish. Indo-Pacific; Red Sea to Micronesia. Only tropical reef catfish
species. To a foot in length. Dangerously venomous. A batch of schooling
juveniles and a single adult. |
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