Ariidae

Pemecou sea catfish

Sciades herzbergii

Ninety Four Point Two Centimeters Catfish of the Caribbean Sea

• Tropical
• Estuary
• Southern Hemisphere
• Regional distribution
• Atlantic Ocean
• Central America and the Caribbean
• South America
• Elongated
• Large
• Tropical fish

The Pemecou sea catfish (Sciades herzbergii), also known as the flapnose sea catfish, the mud cuirass, or the gillbacker, is a species of catfish in the family Ariidae. It was described by Marcus Elieser Bloch in 1794, originally under the genus Silurus. It inhabits marine, brackish and freshwaters in Brazil, Guyana, French Guiana, Colombia, Suriname, Venezuela, and Trinidad and Tobago.