Eel-tailed catfish
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Not to be confused with Eeltail catfish.
The eel-tailed catfish, Tandanus tandanus, is a species of catfish (order Siluriformes) of the family Plotosidae.[2] This fish is also known as dewfish, freshwater catfish, jewfish, and tandan.[3]
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Siluriformes |
Family: | Plotosidae |
Genus: | Tandanus |
Species: | T. tandanus |
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Tandanus tandanus (Mitchell, 1838) | |
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This species is a freshwater fish native to the Murray-Darling river system of eastern Australia.[2] The scientific name for eel-tailed catfish comes from a name for the fish in an unidentified Aboriginal Australian language - Tandan - which Major Thomas Livingston Mitchell recorded on his 1832 expedition.[4]