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Arius oetik (Sea catfish; Catfish)

Synonyms: Arius utik
Language: Malay; Mandarin Chinese

Wikipedia Abstract

Arius oetik is a species of sea catfish in the family Ariidae. It was described by Pieter Bleeker in 1846. It is known from tropical marine and brackish waters in the western Pacific. It reaches a maximum total length of 22.5 cm (8.9 in). Its diet consists of mussels, flathead locust lobsters, shrimp, conger eels, ponyfish, squids and Indian mackerels.
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Prey / Diet

Rastrelliger brachysoma (shortbodied mackerel)[1]
Secutor indicius (Ponyfish )[1]
Thenus orientalis (flathead lobster)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Lutjanus gibbus (red snapper)1
Lutjanus sanguineus (saddletailed sea perch)1
Rachycentron canadum (Sergent fish)1

Predators

Rachycentron canadum (Sergent fish)[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit 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.
♦ 2Diet composition and food habits of demersal and pelagic marine fishes from Terengganu waters, east coast of Peninsular Malaysia, Z. Bachok, M.I. Mansor and R.M. Noordin, NAGA, WorldFish Center Quarterly Vol. 27 No. 3 & 4 Jul-Dec 2004, p. 41-47
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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