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Neosilurus

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Neosilurus

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Neosilurus is a genus of eeltail catfishes native to Australia and New Guinea.

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Within Vinony's link graph, Neosilurus is referenced by 11 other articles, and connects out to Australia, Animalia and International Standard Book Number.

It sits within the topics Catfish genera, Fish of Australia and Fish of New Guinea.

Its subject is documented across 10 Wikipedia language editions.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassTeleostei
  4. OrderSiluriformes
  5. FamilyPlotosidae
Habitatfreshwater

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
117
With media
7
Family
Plotosidae
Collections
NMV, WAM, ROM, SAMA
Recorded in
Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Plotosidae
Image
FMIB 45580 Neosilurus hyrtlii.jpeg
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taxon name
Neosilurus
taxon rank
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topic's main category
Category:Neosilurus
Commons category
Neosilurus
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Encyclopedic overview

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Neosilurus is a genus of eeltail catfishes native to Australia and New Guinea.

It is one of the largest genus of fresh water plotosid.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Neosilurus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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