Passany sea catfish (Sciades passany)

Scientific name: Sciades passany Valenciennes, 1840

Passany sea catfish (Sciades passany)

The Passany sea catfish (Sciades passany) is a brackish-water fish of the family Ariidae. Native range: Western Atlantic, Guyana to the mouth of the Amazon River in Brazil.

Biology

Dorsal spines (total): 1. The head is flattened on top. The snout is short and large and transversally truncated. Mouth terminal, the lower jaw is the same length or slightly longer than the superior jaw. It has three pairs of barbels (1 pair maxillary barbels, 2 pairs of mandibular barbels).

Source: FishBase, licensed CC BY-NC 4.0.

Species facts

Scientific name
Sciades passany
Family
Ariidae (Sea catfishes)
Order
Siluriformes (Catfish)
Class
Actinopterygii (Ray-finned fishes)
Maximum length
100.0
Common length
50.0
Environment
Marine; brackish; demersal
Climate
Tropical
Distribution
Western Atlantic: Guyana to the mouth of the Amazon River in Brazil.
Conservation status (IUCN)
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
Traumatogenic
Uses
Fisheries: minor commercial
Resilience
Very Low, minimum population doubling time more than 14 years (Preliminary K or Fecundity.)

Sources

Taxonomy, distribution and biology data: FishBase (Froese, R. and D. Pauly, eds.), licensed CC BY-NC 4.0.

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