Eel-tailed catfish

Not to be confused with Eeltail catfish.

Eel-tailed catfish
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Family: Plotosidae
Genus: Tandanus
Species:
T. tandanus
Binomial name
Tandanus tandanus
(Mitchell, 1838)
Synonyms
  • Plotosus tandanus
    Mitchell, 1838

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]

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]

  1. ^ Gilligan, D.; Clunie, P. (2019). "Tandanus tandanus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T122902003A123382071. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T122902003A123382071.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b Ferraris, Carl J. Jr. (2007). "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1418: 1–628. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1418.1.1. Retrieved 24 June 2009.
  3. ^ "Tandanus tandanus : Freshwater Catfish". Atlas of Living Australia. Retrieved 14 July 2014.
  4. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Tandanus tandanus". FishBase. February 2012 version.