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The family Pimelodidae has undergone much revision. Currently, it contains about 30 genera and about 90 recognized and known but unnamed species. [2] Wikipedia lists 109 species in this family. The low-eye catfish (previously family Hypophthalmidae), and thus the genus Hypophthalmus, which contains four species, was reclassified with the ...
Pimelodidae. Genus: Pimelodus. Lacépède, 1803. Type species. Pimelodus maculatus. Lacépède, 1803. Pimelodus is a genus of fish in the family Pimelodidae native to Central and South America. [1]
Pimelodus clarias (Bloch, 1782) [3] Silurus clarias Bloch, 1782 [ 4 ] The Bloch's catfish or Pimelodus blochii [ 5 ] [ 1 ] is a fish in the family Pimelodidae .
Pimelodus pictus, also known as the pictus cat or pictus catfish, is a small (11.0 centimetres (4.3 in) TL) member of the catfish family Pimelodidae, native to the Amazon and Orinoco river basins and commonly kept as a pet in freshwater aquariums. Pictus catfish are sometimes mislabeled as Angelicus cats in the aquarium trade, but the latter ...
This species was first described as Pimelodus barbancho; however, this is considered a nomen oblitum. [7] It was then described as Pimelodus pirinampu in 1829. In 1858, the genus Pinirampus was described for this species, in which it is usually classified as the only species.
Binomial name. Pimelodus albicans. (Valenciennes, 1840) Synonyms. Silurus muticus Larrañaga, 1923[1] Arius albicans Valenciennes, 1840[1] Pimelodus albicans[2][1] is a species of catfish in the family Pimelodidae. It is endemic to the Paraná River basin in Argentina. [3][4]
Pimelodus argenteus. Pimelodus argenteus[2][3] is a fish in the family Pimelodidae, [4] which is distributed over the Paraguái and Lower and Middle Paraná River basins, occurring in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay in South America. The name is preoccupied by Pimelodus argenteus Lacepède 1803, which is a synonym of the ...
The type species of this genus, P. eigenmanni, was first described in 1946 under the genus Pimelodus. In 2002, the genus Propimelodus was described for this species. [1] Shortly after, in 2006, the species P. caesius was described to this genus and in 2007 another new species, P. araguayae was described. Other species will be described in the ...