Eel-tailed catfish
The eel-tailed catfish is a freshwater fish with a large head, thick lips and a tail that narrows like an eel's. It lives in the Murray-Darling river system in eastern Australia. Its fins carry sharp, venomous spines, so it is important to know it when you are in the water.1

Co renconuscher el
- Large head with thick, fleshy lips and tube-shaped nostrils1
- Four pairs of barbels (whisker-like feelers) around the mouth1
- Almost cylindrical body that tapers into a pointed, eel-like tail with a continuous fin edge1
- Olive-green to brown, black or purplish back with a white underside1
- Sharp, serrated spines on the dorsal (back) and pectoral (side) fins, which are venomous1
Forza dal tissi
Spinas pizzadas portan il tissi. Sch'ins passa sin el u al piglia, fa quai mal.
Tge fa ses tissi?
Its fin spines are venomous and can cause a very painful wound.1
Quant privlus è el per umans?
Privel per umans: DolurusQuai po far propi mal, ma i n'è bunamain mai grav.The spines can cause a very painful wound.1
Sche sias spinas ta furan
- Metta la plaja en aua chauda, uschè chauda sco che la persuna po supportar senza sa brischar (emprova cun tes agen maun), durant 30 fin 90 minutas. Tschertga agid medicinal, surtut tar peschs crap e rajas.
Clama adina l'emprim tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911). Quai è in cussegl general d'emprim agid, betg in cussegl medicinal. Basa da l'emprim agid
Resta en segirezza
- Na tutga, na piglia e na tizza mai in animal selvadi, gnanc in pitschen, ed era sch'el para da durmir u d'esser mort.
- Dà spazi a l'animal. Sche ti scuntras in, resta calm, va plaun enavos e lascha ir el per sia via.
- Sche sias spinas ta furan: resta calm, na ta mova betg, clama tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911) u va spert en in ospital. Ta regorda co ch'el veseva or, ina foto gida.
El n'ha betg quai sin tai. El dovra ses tissi per pigliar nutriment u per sa defender, e sa zuppa bler pli gugent. Dapli davart la segirezza
Quant grond è el?
Quant lung è el?
Quant grev è el?
uschè lung sco 2 giats da chasa dal nas fin a la cua
uschè lung sco 5 bananas ina suenter l'autra
var uschè grev sco in giat da chasa
pudess nudar la lunghezza d'in grond bassin (50 m) en 24 secundasQuant grond è Eel-tailed catfish cumpareglià cun TAI?
Mo matematica en tes navigatur. Nagut na vegn memorisà u tramess.
Quant svelt è el?
Fatgs
Males and females both help: the parents guard the nest of eggs until they hatch.1
The nest is built one or two weeks before spawning, when water reaches 20–24 °C.1
Juveniles often gather in groups, although adults usually live alone.1
Its populations in the southern Murray-Darling have declined so much that most are extinct or nearly so.1
Per experts da tissi
- Num scientific
- Tandanus tandanus
- Gruppa
- Peschs tissientads
- Famiglia
- Plotosidae2
- Urden
- Siluriformes
- Continents
- Australia ed Oceania
- Poppins
- Eggs are laid in a large nest of small stones and gravel, up to a metre across. One or both parents guard the eggs until they hatch.1
- Durada da vita
- circa 8 onns1
- Co ch'i va ad el en la natira
- Endangered in New South Wales; Threatened in Victoria; Protected in South Australia1
- Privel per umans
- 2 / 5: Dolurus3
Da nua che vegnan ils fatgs
- Eel-tailed catfish (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Tandanus tandanus (iNaturalist): nums e classificaziun.
- Venom Wiki: il stgalim da privel, la grondezza tipica e la stima da la sveltezza èn noss agens. Guarda co che nus als calculain: Co che nus valitain il privel.
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Spinas tissientadas

