Amissidens hainesi

Amissidens hainesi
Not evaluated (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Family: Ariidae
Subfamily: Ariinae
Genus: Amissidens
Kailola, 2004
Species: A. hainesi
Binomial name
Amissidens hainesi
(Kailola, 2000)
Synonyms

Arius hainesi
Kailola, 2000

Amissidens hainesi, the Ridged catfish, is the only species of catfish (order Siluriformes) in the genus Amissidens of the family Ariidae.[1] This species occurs in marine and brackish waters on the southern coast of New Guinea and Northern Australia, between Darwin and southern Gulf of Carpentaria.[1][2]

The eyes are large. The lips are fleshy and thin and the mouth is small and almost quadrangular.[2] The barbels are thin and short; the maxillary barbels only reach just beyond eye, and the bases of the chin barbels are close together. The fin spines are thin, long, slender. The adipose fin has a short base and is over the posterior two-thirds of the anal fin. The ventral fin pad of sexually mature females is scalloped and tapered. It is dark grey above and iridescent purple.[3] This fish reaches about 30.2 centimetres (11.9 in) SL.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Ferraris, Carl J., Jr. (2007). "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types" (PDF). Zootaxa 1418: 1–628.
  2. 1 2 3 Marceniuk, Alexandre P.; Menezes, Naércio A. (2007). "Systematics of the family Ariidae (Ostariophysi, Siluriformes), with a redefinition of the genera" (PDF). Zootaxa 1416: 1–126.
  3. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). "Arius hainesi" in FishBase. December 2011 version.


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