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Eel-tailed catfish (Tandanus tandanus)
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Ecological Illustration of Eel-tailed catfish (Tandanus tandanus)
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Plotosidae

Eel-tailed catfish

Tandanus tandanus

Tubular nostrils and purple black back

  • Temperate
  • Continental endemic
  • Local endemic species
  • Transcontinental
  • Freshwater fish
  • Oceania
  • Fusiform
  • Large
  • Temperate fish

Eel-tailed catfish is known from Oceania as a freshwater fish. It occurs in freshwater habitats.

Class
Teleosts
Order
Catfishes
Family
Plotosidae
Genus
Tandanus
Water type
Freshwater
Body shape
fusiform
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