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GBIF·2345303speciesAnimalia0 occurrence records
  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderSiluriformes
  4. ›familyAriidae
  5. ›genusArius
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IUCN DD · Data deficient

Giant Sea Catfish

Arius gigas Boulenger, 1911

First described in: Boulenger, George A. 1911. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). , London. Vol. 2: i-xii, 1-529.

This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2345303.