White sea catfish (Genidens barbus)

Scientific name: Genidens barbus Lacep?de, 1803

White sea catfish (Genidens barbus)

The White sea catfish (Genidens barbus) is a brackish-water fish of the family Ariidae. Native range: Southwest Atlantic, Atlantic coast from La Plata basin to eastern Brazil.

Species facts

Scientific name
Genidens barbus
Family
Ariidae (Sea catfishes)
Order
Siluriformes (Catfish)
Class
Actinopterygii (Ray-finned fishes)
Maximum length
120
Environment
Marine; brackish; demersal; oceanodromous
Climate
Subtropical
Distribution
Southwest Atlantic: Atlantic coast from La Plata basin to eastern Brazil.
Conservation status (IUCN)
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
Traumatogenic
Uses
Fisheries: commercial
Resilience
Low, minimum population doubling time 4.5 - 14 years (K=0.13; tmax=36; Fec=32)

Sources

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

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