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Chomba sea catfish

The Chomba sea catfish is a species of catfish in the family Ariidae. It was described by David Starr Jordan and Charles Henry Gilbert in 1883, originally under the genus Arius. It inhabits coastal marine and brackish waters in Costa Rica and Panama. It reaches a maximum standard length of 28 cm (11 in).

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Chomba sea catfish
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Family: Ariidae
Genus: Notarius
Species:
N. osculus
Binomial name
Notarius osculus
(Jordan & Gilbert, 1883)
Synonyms1
  • Arius osculus Jordan & Gilbert, 1883
  • Hexanematichthys osculus (Jordan & Gilbert, 1883)
  • Galeichthys osculus (Jordan & Gilbert, 1883)
  • Tachisurus osculus (Jordan & Gilbert, 1883)
  • Netuma oscula (Jordan & Gilbert, 1883)

The Chomba sea catfish2 (Notarius osculus) is a species of catfish in the family Ariidae.3 It was described by David Starr Jordan and Charles Henry Gilbert in 1883, originally under the genus Arius.1 It inhabits coastal marine and brackish waters in Costa Rica and Panama. It reaches a maximum standard length of 28 cm (11 in).3

References

References

  1. Synonyms of Notarius osculus at www.fishbase.org.
  2. Common names of Notarius osculus at www.fishbase.org.
  3. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Notarius osculus". FishBase. July 2019 version.