striped catfishes

A form of striped catfish — 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.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of striped catfish
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