Species profile—Sciades paucus (shovelnose catfish)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes) → Ariidae (fork-tailed catfishes) → Sciades paucus (shovelnose catfish)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes)
- Family
- Ariidae (fork-tailed catfishes)
- Scientific name
- Sciades paucus Kailola, 2000
- Common name
- shovelnose catfish
- Type reference
- Kailola, P.J., 2000. Six new species of fork-tailed catfishes (Pisces, Teleostei, Ariidae) from Australia and New Guinea. Beagle, Rec. Mus. Art Gallery N.T. 16: 127-144.
- WildNet taxon ID
- 31513
- Synonym(s)
- Arius paucus
Neoarius paucus
Arius midgleyi
Ariopsis paucus - Alternate name(s)
- shovel nose catfish
Carpentaria catfish - 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=31513
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
