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Bagre pinnimaculatus in Costa Rica
Red sea catfish

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Bagre pinnimaculatus   (Steindachner, 1877)
Family:	Ariidae (Sea catfishes)			picture (Bapin_u1.jpg) by Cotto Sánchez, A.J.
Order:	Siluriformes  (catfish)
Class:	Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes)
FishBase name:	Red sea catfish
Max. size:	95.0 cm TL (male/unsexed; Ref. 55763)
Environment:	demersal
Climate:	tropical; 32°N - 3°S
Global Importance:	fisheries: commercial
Resilience:	Very low, minimum population doubling time more than 14 years (Preliminary K or Fecundity.)
Distribution:	Central and South America: Pacific draining rivers from the Gulf of California to Ecuador.
Diagnosis:	Body robust, rounded anteriorly and compressed posteriorly; mouth sub-terminal and wide; teeth villiform, arranged in a narrow band followed by four narrow continuous bands across the palate; two pairs of barbels, the maxillary barbels long and ribbon-like; dorsal and pectoral fin spines long. Body brown; back metallic blue or bright violet; belly silvery gray; fins yellowish green; a black spot present anterior to the anal fin (Ref. 55763).
Biology:	Found in coastal waters (Ref. 9271). Marketed fresh, salted, dried and smoked (Ref. 9271)
Threatened:	Not Evaluated, see IUCN Red List  , (Ref. 36508)
Dangerous:	harmless
Coordinator:	Ferraris, Jr., Carl J.
Main Ref:	Kailola, P.J. and W.A. Bussing. 1995. (Ref. 9271)
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Costa Rica country information
Common names:	[ No common name ]		Ref:
Status:	native		Ref:  Marceniuk, A.P. and C.J. Ferraris, Jr., 2003
Salinity:	freshwater, brackish, marine
Regulations:	no regulations		Ref:
Uses:	no uses
Country Information:	www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/cs.html
Occurrences:	Occurrences    Point map
Main Ref:	Kailola, P.J. and W.A. Bussing, 1995
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	Checked:  Ferraris, Jr., Carl J.	Modified:  Casal, Christine Marie V.	Entered:  Garilao, Cristina V.

	Ref.:				Glossary
		(e.g. 9948)				(e.g. cephalopods)
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Page created by: Eli, 20.10.03, last modified by Eli, 26.06.07