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Cinetodus froggatti (Ramsay & Ogilby, 1886)

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Description: Dorsal spines (total): 1; Dorsal soft rays (total): 7; Anal spines: 0; Anal soft rays: 17 - 19. Habitat: Inhabits slow-flowing, often turbid rivers and coastal waters. Also occurs in slow-moving freshwater streams, favours turbid coastal shallows and brackish estuaries. Reproduction: Spawn from October to February in the lower reaches of rivers; males incubate eggs in their mouth. Diet: Feeds on gastropod and bivalve mollusks. The food are swallowed whole. Etymology: The specific name froggatti: in honour of Austrian entomologist Walter Wilson Froggatt (1858-1937), “on whom the whole burden of collecting the zoological specimens obtained during the late expedition of the Bonito [which explored New Guinea] seems to have fallen”.

Common Name:

Smallmouth Catfish

Synonyms:

Arius froggatti, Septobranchus johannae

Family:

Ariidae

Distribution:

Oceania: Southern New Guinea and Roper River system, Northern Australia; in coastal waters, estuaries, and into fresh water. Type locality: Strickland River, New Guinea.

Size:

48.0cm. (19ins)

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p.H.

Reference:

Allen, G.R., 1989. Freshwater fishes of Australia. T.F.H. Publications, Inc., Neptune City, New Jersey.
Cinetodus in Fishes of Australia, accessed 05 Sep 2020,. Fishes of Australia
Ferraris, C.J. Jr., 2007. Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types. Zootaxa 1418:1-628.
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2019. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org, ( 12/2019 ).
Martin F. Gomon, Arius froggatti Ramsay E.P. & Ogilby J.D. (1886) A contribution to the knowledge of the fish fauna of New Guinea. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W.(2)1(1): 8-20, Strickland River, New Guinea.
The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database © Christopher Scharpf.

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Cinetodus froggatti
Holotype-Strickland River, New Guinea

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Holotype-dorsal view, Strickland River, New Guinea

Cinetodus froggatti
Holotype-ventral view, Strickland River, New Guinea

Cinetodus froggatti

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