- Cooper Creek catfish
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Cooper Creek catfish Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Siluriformes Family: Plotosidae Genus: Neosiluroides
Allen & Feinberg, 1998Species: N. cooperensis Binomial name Neosiluroides cooperensis
Allen & Feinberg, 1998The Cooper Creek catfish, Neosiluroides cooperensis, is a species of catfish (order Siluriformes) of the family Plotosidae, and is the only species of the genus Neosiluroides.[1][2] It is known from the Cooper Creek system of the Lake Eyre drainage.[1][3] This species grows up to about 46.0 centimetres (18.1 in) SL.[3]
It is usually found in larger, more permanent waterholes with an earth and clay substrate, where significant flow occurs only after severe rainfall events; at this time, water is typically very turbid. It is very aggressive towards other fishes, particularly in captivity.[3] These fish feed on gastropods and crustaceans.[3] This species has the largest egg size (3–4 millimetres or .12–.16–in) and the lowest fecundity (about 1000 eggs per spawning) per unit length of any plotosid catfish in Australia.[3]
References
- ^ a b Ferraris, Carl J., Jr. (2007). "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types" (PDF). Zootaxa 1418: 1–628. http://silurus.acnatsci.org/ACSI/library/biblios/2007_Ferraris_Catfish_Checklist.pdf.
- ^ "Cooper Creek Catfish". Fish.gov.au. http://www.fish.gov.au/fishnames/fishnames.php?pid=1033. Retrieved 2007-08-01.
- ^ a b c d e Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2007). "Neosiluroides cooperensis" in FishBase. Aug 2007 version.
Categories:- Siluriformes stubs
- Plotosidae
- Freshwater fish of Australia
- Monotypic fish genera
- Animals described in 1998
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