Belize Biodiversity Information System

   Wildlife Conservation Society

   Ministry of Natural Resources' Land Information Centre

   01/19/98



  NAME -                 Gafftopsail catfish

  FAMILY -               Ariidae
  SCIENTIFIC NAME -      Bagre marinus

  SYNONYMS - Silurus marinus- Mitchill 1815

  REFERENCES - 01

  

                                                              
  

  District                                                     Reference

  Belize                                                               1
  

  Administrative Unit                  Occurrence          Temporal    Reference

  Burdon Canal Nature Reserve           Collected as voucher                  1
  

  Hydrologic Association         Reference

  Coastal                              1
  

  Elevation        Reference

  1-200 m               1
  

  1:50,000 Quadrangle                   Reference

  17 30' to 17 45'; 88 00' to 88 15'           1
  

  Holdridge Life Zone                   Reference

  Subtropical moist                            1
  

  General Distribution Comments

  1* Taken from the mangrove channels near St. John's College at Belize City.

  References

  1   Greenfield, D. W., J. E. Thomerson. 1997. Fishes of the Continental
      Waters of Belize.  University of Florida Press.