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Ariidae

Marceniuk, Alexandre Pires;Oliveira, Claudio;Ferraris Jr, Carl J.

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The Ariidae or ariid catfish are a family of catfish that mainly live in marine waters with many freshwater and brackish water species. They are found worldwide in tropical to warm temperate zones. The family includes about 143 species.

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sea catfishes

FAMILY

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassTeleostei
  4. OrderSiluriformes
  5. FamilyAriidae
Habitatmarine, brackish, freshwater
Observations recorded465,643

Christusvissen of zeemeervallen (Ariidae) vormen een familie van vissen uit de orde van de Meervalachtigen (Siluriformes). Vissen uit deze familie leven voornamelijk in zee, maar er zijn ook veel soorten bekend die in brak of zoet water leven. Ze worden over de gehele wereld aangetroffen in tropische tot de warmere gematigde zones. Ze komen aan hun naam vanwege hun skelet dat, met wat verbeelding, lijkt op een kruisigingsscéne. De enige continenten waar vissen uit deze familie niet voorkomt zijn Europa en Antarctica.

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The Ariidae or ariid catfish are a family of catfish that mainly live in marine waters with many freshwater and brackish water species. They are found worldwide in tropical to warm temperate zones. The family includes about 143 species.

The Ariidae are among the oldest known siluroid catfish known from fossil remains. Fossilized pectoral spines and skull bone fragments of ariid catfish are known from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian and Maastrichtian) of Argentina. The ariid relative Vorhisia is known from highly abundant fossil otoliths from Maastrichtian-aged nearshore marine formations of North America.

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