Animalia > Chordata > Siluriformes > Plotosidae > Cnidoglanis > Cnidoglanis macrocephalus

Cnidoglanis macrocephalus (South Australian catfish; Estuary cobbler; Estuary catfish; Deteira; Estuarine cat-fish; Cobbler)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Cnidoglanis macrocephalus is a species of catfish (order Siluriformes) of the family Plotosidae, and is the only species of the genus Cnidoglanis. It is commonly known as the cobbler, estuary cobbler, deteira, estuary catfish, South Australian catfish, or Swan River catfish.
View Wikipedia Record: Cnidoglanis macrocephalus

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  3.031 lbs (1.375 kg)
Female Maturity [2]  2 years 6 months
Male Maturity [1]  2 years 6 months
Maximum Longevity [2]  13 years

Ecosystems

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Acanthopagrus butcheri (Southern yellowfin bream)1
Ostorhinchus rueppellii (Western gobbleguts)2
Sillaginodes punctatus (Spotted whiting)2
Sillago burrus (Trumpeter whiting)2
Torquigener pleurogramma (Weeping toado)1

Predators

Phalacrocorax carbo (Great Cormorant)[5]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Anchylodiscus caballeroi[6]
Dichelyne cnidoglanis[7]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495.
♦ 3Jorrit 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.
♦ 4Fish diets and food webs in the Swan–Canning estuary, River Science July 2009, Department of Water, Government of Western Australia
♦ 5Comparisons Between the Diets of Distant Taxa (Teleost and Cormorant) in an Australian Estuary, PAUL HUMPHRIES, GLENN A. HYNDES, IAN C. POTTER, Estuaries Vol. 15, No. 3. p. 327-334 September 1992
♦ 6Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 7Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
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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