Species profile—Neosilurus ater (black catfish)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes) → Plotosidae (eel-tailed catfishes) → Neosilurus ater (black catfish)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes)
- Family
- Plotosidae (eel-tailed catfishes)
- Scientific name
- Neosilurus ater (Perugia, 1894)
- Common name
- black catfish
- WildNet taxon ID
- 27046
- Alternate name(s)
- narrow-fronted tandan
butter jew
jewfish
eeltail - Conservation significant
- No
- Wetland status
- Wetland Dependant Species
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
- Species environment
- Aquatic
Other resources
Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums (OZCAM) Atlas of Living AustraliaData source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=27046
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.