Amissidens hainesi

Taxobox
name = "Amissidens hainesi"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Siluriformes
familia = Ariidae
subfamilia = Ariinae
genus = "Amissidens"
genus_authority = Kailola, 2004
species = "A. hainesi"
binomial = "Amissidens hainesi"
binomial_authority = (Kailola, 2000)
synonyms = "Arius hainesi"
Kailola, 2000

"Amissidens hainesi" is the only species of catfish (order Siluriformes) in the genus "Amissidens" of the family Ariidae.cite journal|url=http://silurus.acnatsci.org/ACSI/library/biblios/2007_Ferraris_Catfish_Checklist.pdf|title=Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types|first=Carl J., Jr.|last=Ferraris|journal=Zootaxa|volume=1418|pages=1–628|year=2007|format=PDF] This species occurs in marine and brackish waters on the southern coast of New Guinea and Northern Australia, between Darwin and southern Gulf of Carpentaria.cite journal|url=http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2007f/zt01416p126.pdf|title=Systematics of the family Ariidae (Ostariophysi, Siluriformes), with a redefinition of the genera|first=Alexandre P.|last=Marceniuk|coauthors=Menezes, Naércio A.|journal=Zootaxa|volume=1416|pages=1–126|year=2007|format=PDF]

The eyes are large. The lips are fleshy and thin and the mouth is small and almost quadrangular. The barbels are thin and short; the maxillary barbels only reach just beyond eye, and the bases of the chin barbels are close together. The fin spines are thin, long, slender. The adipose fin has a short base and is over the posterior two-thirds of the anal fin. The ventral fin pad of sexually mature females is scalloped and tapered. It is dark grey above and iridescent purple.FishBase species|genus=Arius|species=hainesi|year=2007|month=Aug] This fish reaches about 30.2 centimetres (11.9 in) SL.

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