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Madagascar sea catfish

species of fish

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ303361 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Madagascar sea catfish (Betancurichthys madagascariensis) is a species of fish in the family Ariidae. It is found in Madagascar, Mozambique, and Tanzania. Its natural habitats are rivers, freshwater lakes, shallow seas, and estuarine waters. The Madagascar Sea Catfish has a common length of 20 centimetres (7.9 in), but may reach 70 centimetres (28 in).

References

Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Arius madagascariensis". FishBase.

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This entry incorporates text from “Madagascar sea catfish” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.