The flapnose sea catfish (Sciades dowii), also known as the brown sea catfish,[2] is a species of catfish in the family Ariidae.[3] It was described by Theodore Gill in 1863, originally under the genus Leptarius.[1] It inhabits rivers and estuaries in Ecuador, Colombia, Guatemala, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Panama, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, and Peru. It dwells at a depth range of 0 to 15 m (0 to 49 ft).[4] It reaches a maximum total length of 90 cm (35 in), more commonly reaching a TL of 50 cm (20 in).[3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Ariidae |
| Genus: | Sciades |
| Species: | S. dowii
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| Binomial name | |
| Sciades dowii (Gill, 1863)
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The diet of the flapnose sea catfish includes small finfish, fish scales, and benthic invertebrates.[5] Due to a lack of known major threats to the species, it is currently ranked as Least Concern by the IUCN redlist. It has been harvested for its meat since Pre-Columbian times, and remains a commercially important foodfish to date.[4] It is marketed both fresh and dried-salted.[3]
Etymology
editThe fish is named in honor of John Melmoth Dow (1827-1892) a Panama Railroad Company ship captain and an amateur naturalist, who presented the type specimen to the Smithsonian Institution.[6]
References
edit- ^ a b Synonyms of Sciades dowii at www.fishbase.org.
- ^ Common names of Sciades dowii at www.fishbase.org.
- ^ a b c Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Sciades dowii". FishBase. July 2019 version.
- ^ a b Sciades dowii at the IUCN redlist.
- ^ Food items reported for Sciades dowii at www.fishbase.org.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order SILURIFORMES: Families CLARIIDAE, HETEROPNEUSTIDAE, ANCHARIIDAE and ARIIDA". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
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