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Lacandon Sea Catfish
Potamarius nelsoni
The Lacandon sea catfish (Potamarius nelsoni) is a species of catfish in the family Ariidae. It was described by Barton Warren Evermann and Edmund Lee Goldsborough in 1902, originally under the genus Conorhynchos. It is known from the Usumacinta River, in Mexico. It reaches a maximum standard length of 39 cm (15 in).
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 204993.