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Netuma proxima (Sea catfish; Arafura sea catfish; Arafura catfish)

Synonyms: Arius arafurensis; Arius proximus; Netuma proximus; Netuna proximus
Language: Mandarin Chinese

Prey / Diet

Metapenaeus ensis (greasyback shrimp)[1]
Penaeus esculentus (brown tiger prawn)[1]
Penaeus semisulcatus (green tiger prawn)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Carcharhinus falciformis (Silky shark)[2]
Sphyrna tudes (Smalleye hammerhead)[2]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Buticulotrema stenauchenus[2]
Tellervotrema armstrongi[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Diets of piscivorous fishes in a tropical Australian estuary, with special reference to predation on penaeid prawns, J. P. Salini, S. J. M. Blaber and D. T. Brewer, Marine Biology 105, 363-374 (1990)
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0