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Ariidae
Rough-head sea catfish
Carlarius latiscutatus
Catfish Reaching Eighty Five Centimeters
- Tropical
- Coastal
- Estuary
- Regional distribution
- Atlantic Ocean
- Africa
- Fusiform
- Large
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Atlantic Ocean
Fusiform
LargeRough-head sea catfish is known from Eastern Atlantic as a freshwater fish. It occurs in freshwater habitats.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Catfishes
- Family
- Ariidae
- Genus
- Carlarius
- Maximum length
- 85 cm
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Eastern Atlantic: coastal waters from Senegal to Angola (Ref. 3546 , 3876 , 7367 , 57224 ). One record from Fernando Poo (Ref. 6541 , 89460 ). Also reported from various river estuaries.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
