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Plotosidae

Plotosidae Not a well known catfish family as the majority reside in Australia and New Guinea.

The common name for the 30 or so species in this family are the "eel-tailed catfishes" due to the continuation of the caudal and anal fin around the body. The most common species is the marine or "coral cat", Plotosus lineatus, but the vast majority are endemic to freshwater.

COMMON NAMES
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Black Tandan

Bulloo false-spined catfish

Cooper Creek catfish

Cooper Creek Tandan

Coral Catfish

Eel-tailed Catfish

Estuary Cobbler

False-spined catfish

Gray eel-catfish

Hyrtl's Tandan

Jewfish

Maria's tandan

Narrow - fronted Tandan

Neosiluroides sp. B.

New Guinea tandan

Obbes' catfish

Papuan eel-catfish

Rendahl's catfish

Sailfin Catfish

Shortfin tandan

Short-finned Catfish

Silver Tandan

Soft-spined Catfish

Southern tandan

Stinging eel catfish

Tandan

Toothless Catfish

Wet Tropics Tandan

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