''Cinetodus'' is a

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sea catfish The Ariidae or ariid catfish are a family of catfish that mainly live in marine waters with many freshwater and brackish water species. They are found worldwide in tropical to warm temperate zones. The family includes about 143 species. Fossil ...

es (

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Siluriformes) of the

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Ariidae. These species originate from brackish and fresh waters of

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, southern

New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; , fossilized , also known as Papua or historically ) is the List of islands by area, world's second-largest island, with an area of . Located in Melanesia in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is ...

and northern

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Species

This genus currently contains three described species: * '' Cinetodus carinatus'' ( M. C. W. Weber, 1913) – comb-spined catfish * ''

Cinetodus conorhynchus The Lorentz catfish (''Cinetodus conorhynchus'') is a species of sea catfish endemic to West Papua in Indonesia where it is known from the Lorentz River and Fly River The Fly River is the third longest river on the island of New Guinea, after ...

'' (M. C. W. Weber, 1913) – Lorentz catfish * '' Cinetodus crassilabris'' ( E. P. Ramsay & J. D. Ogilby, 1886) – thick-lipped catfish * ''

Cinetodus froggatti ''Cinetodus froggatti'', known as Froggatt's catfish or smallmouthed salmon catfish, is a species of sea catfish found in West Papua in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea where it is found in the Purari, Fly, Strickland and Digul River systems as w ...

'' (E. P. Ramsay & J. D. Ogilby, 1886) – Froggatt's catfish, smallmouthed salmon catfish

References

Catfish genera Taxa named by James Douglas Ogilby Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Ariidae-stub