Paraplotosus butleri

Paraplotosus butleri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Siluriformes
Family:	Plotosidae
Genus:	Paraplotosus
Species:	P. butleri
Binomial name
	Paraplotosus butleri; Allen, 1998

Paraplotosus butleri, commonly known as the sailfin catfish, is a species of catfish in the family Plotosidae.[1][2] This fish is found in coastal reefs off northern Australia in the western Indo-Pacific Ocean.[1] It grows up to about 32.5 centimetres (12.8 in) SL.[3]

The sailfin catfish is found in shallow coastal waters to 5 metres depth. Mature adults are completely black.[4]

References

Ferraris, Carl J. Jr. (2007). "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1418: 349. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1418.1.1.
"Sailfin Catfish". Fish.gov.au. Retrieved 2021-04-29.
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2021). "Paraplotosus butleri" in FishBase. April 2021 version.
Allen, George R. (1998). "A review of the marine catfish genus Paraplotosus (Plotosidae) with the description of a new species from north-western Australia" (PDF). Raf. Bull. Zool. 46 (1): 123–134.

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[Ferraris-1] Ferraris, Carl J. Jr. (2007). "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1418: 349. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1418.1.1.

[2] "Sailfin Catfish". Fish.gov.au. Retrieved 2021-04-29.

[fishbase-3] Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2021). "Paraplotosus butleri" in FishBase. April 2021 version.

[4] Allen, George R. (1998). "A review of the marine catfish genus Paraplotosus (Plotosidae) with the description of a new species from north-western Australia" (PDF). Raf. Bull. Zool. 46 (1): 123–134.