[3] It was first described by Achille Valenciennes in 1840, originally under the genus Arius.

[1] It inhabits brackish and marine waters in New Guinea, Australia, and southern and south-eastern Asia.

It reaches a maximum total length of 50 cm (20 in).

[3] The diet of the longsnouted catfish includes bony fish, benthic crustaceans including crabs and prawns, detritus, mollusks, polychaete and annelid worms, algae and mud.

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