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Pimelodus is a genus of fish in the family Pimelodidae native to Central and South America. Species. There are currently 34 recognized species in this genus:
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 ...
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. [6][2]
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 ...
Tachysurus upsulonophorus Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1889. Genidens barbus, the white sea catfish or marine catfish, [2] is a species of catfish in the family Ariidae. [3] It was described by Bernard Germain de Lacépède in 1803, originally under the genus Pimelodus. [1]
Pimelodus brevis Marini, Nichols & LaMonte, 1933. 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 ...
Pimelodus pohli is a species of catfish belonging to the family Pimelodidae.It is only found in the São Francisco River, Brazil, and its tributaries.. Smaller, younger members of this species (under 10.0 centimetres (3.9 in) standard length) have the grey body marked with four rows of small dark spots, larger specimens tending to be plain grey.
The Gagora catfish[2] (Arius gagora) is a species of sea catfish in the family Ariidae. [3] It was described by Francis Buchanan-Hamilton in 1822, originally under the genus Pimelodus. [4] It is a migratory species found in the tropical marine, brackish and freshwater of Bangladesh, Myanmar, and India. [5]