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Paraplotosus butleri
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
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. This fish is found in coastal reefs off northern Australia in the western Indo-Pacific Ocean. It grows up to about 32.5 centimetres (12.8 in) SL.

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

References

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.
3. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Paraplotosus butleri". FishBase. June 2022 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). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 46 (1): 123–134.

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