striped catfish

English edit

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Noun edit

striped catfish (plural striped catfish or striped catfishes)

Plotosus lineatus, a type of eeltail catfish with a long, cylindrical body, black with horizontal white stripes and venomous spines on its dorsal and pectoral fins, found in the Indian Ocean, the western Pacific, and invasive in the Mediterranean.

Translations edit

fish of species Plotosus lineatus

Japanese: ゴンズイ (ごんずい, gonzui)

References edit

Plotosus lineatus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Plotosus lineatus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Plotosus lineatus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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