Belize Sea Catfish

Cathorops spixii (Agassiz 1829)

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Cathorops spixii (Belize Sea Catfish) is a species of ray-finned fishes in the family sea catfishes. Individuals can grow to 24.8 cm.

EOL has data for 10 attributes, including:

body size
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBA_VT0100005
- Definition: The size of a multicellular organism
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20 cm
geographic distribution includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Present
- Definition: This organism is known to be present in this location or region. Not exclusive; other regions may also be reported.
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Maranhao
- URI: http://www.geonames.org/3395443
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habitat includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Habitat
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brackish water
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000322
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harvested in
- URI: https://eol.org/schema/terms/harvested_in
- Definition: This organism is caught or collected, and put to human use, in the following region(s)
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Venezuela
- URI: http://www.geonames.org/3625428
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has ectoparasite
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002633
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Taeniastrotos braziliensis Montú & Boxshall 1997
standard length
- URI: http://purl.org/obo/owlATOL_0001659
- Definition: length of a fish measured from the tip of the snout to the posterior end of the last vertebra or to the posterior end of the midlateral portion of the hypural plate. Simply put, this measurement excludes the length of the caudal fin
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24.8 cm
water depth
- URI: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/verbatimDepth
- Definition: The depth of seawater at a location where this organism has been observed or collected.
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0.3 m

Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of Belize sea catfish. View this species on GBIF

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