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Madagascar sea catfish
Arius madagascariensis Vaillant, 1894
First described in: Vaillant, L. L. (1894). Note sur les poissons de la famille des Siluridées appartement à la faune madécasse et description d'une espèce nouvelle. <em>Bulletin de la Société philomathique de Paris (8th Série).</em> v. 6: 75-80. [Separate pp. 8-13.].
The Madagascar sea catfish (Betancurichthys madagascariensis) is a species of fish in the family Ariidae. It is found in Madagascar, Mozambique, and Tanzania. Its natural habitats are rivers, freshwater lakes, shallow seas, and estuarine waters. The Madagascar Sea Catfish has a common length of 20 centimetres (7.9 in), but may reach 70 centimetres (28 in).
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
materials_examined
Material examined: AMNH 88075 (4 al, 213 - 400 mm TL) (1 c & s), Malagasy Republic, Madagascar, Antsirabe market, from Tsiribihina River.
Systematics of the family Ariidae (Ostariophysi, Siluriformes), with a redefinition of the genera.
Where it has been recorded
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Every page naming Arius madagascariensis in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2345240.