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Eel-tailed catfish, Tandanus tandanus
Subject: Eel-tailed catfish, Tandanus tandanus
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FMIB 45579 Tandanus tandanus - eel-tailed catfish - dewfish - tandan - jewfish.jpg
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Eel-tailed catfish, Tandanus tandanus


Author Edgar Ravenswood Waite (1866–1928)
English: Tandanus tandanus
Subject: Catfishes, Tandanus
Date 1921
Source English: Waite, Edgar R. (1921) Illustrated Catalogue of the Fishes of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia: G. Hassell & Son
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FMIB_45579_Tandanus_tandanus.jpeg

The eel-tailed catfish, Tandanus tandanus, is a species of catfish (order Siluriformes) of the family Plotosidae. This fish is also known as dewfish, freshwater catfish, jewfish, and tandan. This species is a freshwater fish native to the Murray-Darling river system of eastern Australia. 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.

Order: Siluriformes
Family: Plotosidae
Genus: Tandanus
Species: Tandanus tandanus (Mitchell, 1838)
Synonyms: Plotosus tandanus Mitchell, 1838

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