Sciades
felis (Linnaeus,
1766) |
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| Image
contributors to this species: |
Paul
A.Scharf (1) Allan James (1 Stamp),
Frants Lehmann
(1 Stamp) Johnny
Jensen's Photographic Library (2) |
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Sources: |
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| Relevant
Information: |
Resides in marine and brackish
waters and rarely in fresh waters. The Sciades genera contains
the largest number of ariid species from the eastern and western
Americas, south and southeast Asia, southern New Guinea and northern
Australia. The nominal genera Hexanematichthys, Selenaspis
and Ariopsis represented by the respective type-species
Pimelodus sagor Hamilton, 1822, Silurus herzbergii
Bloch, 1794 and Arius milberti Valenciennes, 1840 (= Silurus
felis Linnaeus, 1766), are considered junior synonyms of Sciades. |
| Common
Name: |
Hardhead
sea catfish |
| Synonyms: |
Silurus
felis, Arius milberti, Arius equestris, Galeichthys guentheri |
| Family: |
Ariidae
mblycipitidae |
| Distribution: |
Southeastern
North America. United States and Mexico. Type locality:
(for Silurus felis)
Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. U.S.A. |
| Size:
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60cm
(24inch) |
| Temp: |
20-27°c
(67-81°f ) |
| p.H. |
7.0
-8.5. |
| Reference: |
Marceniuk, Alexandre
P.; Menezes, Naércio A. (2007). "Systematics
of the family Ariidae (Ostariophysi, Siluriformes), with a redefinition
of the genera" Zootaxa 1416: 1–126. |
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