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Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes) > Siluriformes (Catfish) > Ariidae (Sea catfishes) > Ariinae
Etymology: Arius: Greek, arios, areios = dealing with Mars, warlike, bellicose (Ref. 45335); uncinatus: Name from the Latin 'uncinatus', meaning hooked, in reference to the curved snout of this species (Ref. 56505).

Environment / Climate / Range Ecology

Freshwater; demersal. Tropical, preferred ?

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Africa: Madagascar (Ref. 56505).

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 19.9 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 56505)

Short description Morphology | Morphometrics

Body moderately compressed (Ref. 56505). Vomerine teeth in a single pair of triangular patches (Ref. 56505). Maximum height of adipose fin 4.5-5.8 % of SL (Ref. 56505). Dorsal surface of head and body uniform gray to grayish brown, upper third of head and body darkest, gradually fading to a lighter color along middle third of head and body; lower third and ventral surfaces of head and body dirty white (Ref. 56505). Adipose fin gray, dorsal-fin rays gray, fin rays of all other fins with scattered gray melanophores (Ref. 56505).

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Main reference Upload your references | References | Coordinator : Ferraris, Jr., Carl J. | Collaborators

Ng, H.H. and J.S. Sparks, 2003. The ariid catfishes (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Ariidae) of Madagascar, with the description of two new species. Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich. 735:1-21. (Ref. 56505)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 115185)

Critically Endangered (CR) (B1ab(i,iii,v))

CITES (Ref. 94142)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Traumatogenic (Ref. 58010)

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Arius uncinatus Ng & Sparks, 2003