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Cephalocassis

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

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Cephalocassis

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Cephalocassis is a genus of sea catfishes found along the coasts and in rivers and lakes of southern Asia from India to Malaysia. There are currently two described species in this genus.

Species

GENUS

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

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Specimen records
2
Family
Ariidae
Collections
USNM
Recorded in
Papua New Guinea, United States

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Parent taxon
Ariidae
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Arius jatius Mintern 106.jpg
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Cephalocassis is a genus of sea catfishes found along the coasts and in rivers and lakes of southern Asia from India to Malaysia. There are currently two described species in this genus.

==Species== Cephalocassis manillensis (Valenciennes, 1840) Cephalocassis melanochir (Bleeker, 1852)

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