Chomba sea catfish

Chomba sea catfish
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Siluriformes
Family:	Ariidae
Genus:	Notarius
Species:	N. osculus
Binomial name
	Notarius osculus; (Jordan & Gilbert, 1883)
Synonyms
	Arius osculus Jordan & Gilbert, 1883 ; Hexanematichthys osculus (Jordan & Gilbert, 1883) ; Galeichthys osculus (Jordan & Gilbert, 1883) ; Tachisurus osculus (Jordan & Gilbert, 1883) ; Netuma oscula (Jordan & Gilbert, 1883) ;

The Chomba sea catfish^[2] (Notarius osculus) is a species of catfish in the family Ariidae.^[3] It was described by David Starr Jordan and Charles Henry Gilbert in 1883, originally under the genus Arius.^[1] It inhabits coastal marine and brackish waters in Costa Rica and Panama. It reaches a maximum standard length of 28 cm (11 in).^[3]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b Synonyms of Notarius osculus at www.fishbase.org.
^ Common names of Notarius osculus at www.fishbase.org.
^ ^a ^b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2019). "Notarius osculus" in FishBase. July 2019 version.

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