Netuma patriciae

Whipfin sea catfish
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Siluriformes
Family:	Ariidae
Genus:	Netuma
Species:	N. patriciae
Binomial name
	Netuma patriciae; Y. Takahashi, Seishi Kimura & Motomura, 2019

Netuma patriciae, the whipfin sea catfish, is a species of catfish in the family Ariidae found in the Western Pacific Ocean from the Philippines. ^[1]

Size

This species reaches a length of 30.3 cm (11.9 in).^[2]

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of Patricia J. Kailola, of The University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji, because of her research on ariid catfishes.^[3]

References

^ Takahashi, Yumeka; Kimura, Seishi; Motomrua, Hiroyuki (2020-04-01). "A new sea catfish, Netuma patriciae (Siluriformes: Ariidae), from the Philippines". Ichthyological Research. 67 (2): 264–273. doi:10.1007/s10228-019-00719-4. ISSN 1616-3915.
^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Netuma patriciae". FishBase. February 2015 version.
^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order SILURIFORMES: Families CLARIIDAE, HETEROPNEUSTIDAE, ANCHARIIDAE and ARIIDA". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 2 May 2023.

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[1] Takahashi, Yumeka; Kimura, Seishi; Motomrua, Hiroyuki (2020-04-01). "A new sea catfish, Netuma patriciae (Siluriformes: Ariidae), from the Philippines". Ichthyological Research. 67 (2): 264–273. doi:10.1007/s10228-019-00719-4. ISSN 1616-3915.

[2] Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Netuma patriciae". FishBase. February 2015 version.

[ETYFish-3] Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order SILURIFORMES: Families CLARIIDAE, HETEROPNEUSTIDAE, ANCHARIIDAE and ARIIDA". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 2 May 2023.

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