Paraplotosus butleri, commonly known as the sailfin catfish, is a species of catfish in the family Plotosidae.[1][2] This fish is found in coastal reefs off northern Australia in the western Indo-Pacific Ocean.[1] It grows up to about 32.5 centimetres (12.8 in) SL.[3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Plotosidae |
| Genus: | Paraplotosus |
| Species: | P. butleri
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| Paraplotosus butleri Allen, 1998
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The sailfin catfish is found in shallow coastal waters to 5 metres depth. Mature adults are completely black.[4]
References edit
- ^ a b Ferraris, Carl J. Jr. (2007). "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1418: 349. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1418.1.1.
- ^ "Sailfin Catfish". Fish.gov.au. Retrieved 2021-04-29.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2022). "Paraplotosus butleri" in FishBase. June 2022 version.
- ^ Allen, George R. (1998). "A review of the marine catfish genus Paraplotosus (Plotosidae) with the description of a new species from north-western Australia" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 46 (1): 123–134.
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