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 Family Overview | |
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| Pronounced | Ploe TOW Sid Ae |
| Family Common Name | Eel Tailed Catfish |
| Features | In most species the dorsal, caudal and anal fins are conjoined to form the 'eel-tail'. No adipose fin and four pairs of roughly equal sized barbels. |
| Distribution | Australia & New Guinea |
| Common Names | Eel Tailed Catfish, Marine or Coral Catfish |
| Size | Smallest 90mm, largest 1500mm, average 452mm, most commonly 460mm. All SL. |
| Species | There are 33 "species" in 10 genera in the database |
| Keepers | 11 species (33%) are being kept by registered keepers |
| Top Five Genera (by keepers) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Neosilurus | 10 species | (23 keepers) |
| 2. | Tandanus | 4 species | (15 keepers) |
| 3. | Porochilus | 4 species | (8 keepers) |
| 4. | Plotosus | 4 species | (2 keepers) |
| 5. | Oloplotosus | 1 species | (1 keepers) |
| Distribution of Plotosidae | |
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| Most Kept Species | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Neosilurus ater | (32.65%) |
| 2. | Tandanus tandanus | (30.61%) |
| 3. | Porochilus rendahli | (10.2%) |
| 4. | Neosilurus hyrtlii | (10.2%) |
| 5. | Porochilus obbesi | (4.08%) |
| 6. | Porochilus meraukensis | (2.04%) |
| 7. | Plotosus papuensis | (2.04%) |
| 8. | Plotosus canius | (2.04%) |
| 9. | Oloplotosus mariae | (2.04%) |
| 10. | Neosilurus mollespiculum | (2.04%) |
| 11. | Neosilurus brevidorsalis | (2.04%) |
| Alphabetic Species List (Chronological | Most Kept | Most Bred) | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Anodontiglanis dahli | (i:3, k:0, b:0) |
| 2. | Cnidoglanis macrocephalus | (i:3, k:0, b:0) |
| 3. | Euristhmus lepturus | (i:1, k:0, b:0) |
| 4. | Euristhmus microceps | (i:1, k:0, b:0) |
| 5. | Euristhmus microphthalmus | (i:0, k:0, b:0) |
| 6. | Euristhmus nudiceps | (i:0, k:0, b:0) |
| 7. | Euristhmus sandrae | (i:1, k:0, b:0) |
| 8. | Neosiluroides cooperensis | (i:2, k:0, b:0) |
| 9. | Neosilurus ater | (i:13, k:16, b:0) |
| 10. | Neosilurus brevidorsalis | (i:6, k:1, b:0) |
| 11. | Neosilurus coatesi | (i:1, k:0, b:0) |
| 12. | Neosilurus equinus | (i:0, k:0, b:0) |
| 13. | Neosilurus gloveri | (i:1, k:0, b:0) |
| 14. | Neosilurus hyrtlii | (i:8, k:5, b:0) |
| 15. | Neosilurus idenburgi | (i:0, k:0, b:0) |
| 16. | Neosilurus mollespiculum | (i:0, k:1, b:0) |
| 17. | Neosilurus novaeguineae | (i:0, k:0, b:0) |
| 18. | Neosilurus pseudospinosus | (i:2, k:0, b:0) |
| 19. | Oloplotosus mariae | (i:7, k:1, b:0) |
| 20. | Paraplotosus albilabris | (i:0, k:0, b:0) |
| 21. | Paraplotosus butleri | (i:1, k:0, b:0) |
| 22. | Plotosus abbreviatus | (i:3, k:0, b:0) |
| 23. | Plotosus canius | (i:14, k:1, b:0) |
| 24. | Plotosus lineatus | (i:11, k:0, b:0) |
| 25. | Plotosus papuensis | (i:11, k:1, b:0) |
| 26. | Porochilus argenteus | (i:3, k:0, b:0) |
| 27. | Porochilus meraukensis | (i:4, k:1, b:0) |
| 28. | Porochilus obbesi | (i:4, k:2, b:0) |
| 29. | Porochilus rendahli | (i:10, k:5, b:0) |
| 30. | Tandanus bellingerensis | (i:1, k:0, b:0) |
| 31. | Tandanus bostocki | (i:0, k:0, b:0) |
| 32. | Tandanus tandanus | (i:12, k:15, b:0) |
| 33. | Tandanus tropicanus | (i:0, k:0, b:0) |