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Pararius proximus
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Pararius proximus

Pararius proximus (Ogilby, 1898)

This species is in the Catalogue of Life but not yet in the 2023 GBIF backbone or on iNaturalist: most likely it was described, or split from another species, very recently. What is known so far is below.

Also published as
Arius proximus Ogilby, 1898; Netuma proxima (Ogilby, 1898); Netuma proximus (Ogilby, 1898); Netuna proximus (Ogilby, 1898); Arius arafurensis Hardenberg, 1948
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References

  • Ogilby, J. D. (1898). New genera and species of fishes. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, v. 23 (pt 3): 280–299 (continued from p. 41).
  • Hardenberg, J. D. F. (1948). Some new or rare fishes of the Indo-Australian Archipelago 8. Treubia, Buitenzorg, 19.
  • Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2026). ECoF. Eschmeyer’s Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco., Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2026.

From the Catalogue of Life (catalogueoflife.org), compiled from its specialist databases; CC BY 4.0. This name in the Catalogue of Life.