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Neosilurus
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Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderSiluriformes
- 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
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Neosilurus
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- Neosilurus
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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.