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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 ...
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 ...
L. pictus. Binomial name. Leiarius pictus. (Müller & Troschel, 1849) Synonyms. Bagrus pictus. Sciades pictus. Leiarius pictus, commonly as sailfin pim, painted catfish or saddle catfish, is a species of demersal catfish of the family Pimelodidae that is native to Amazon, Essequibo, and Orinoco River basins of Colombia, Venezuela, Peru and Brazil.
Family: 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.
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The brown bullhead (Ameiurus nebulosus) is a fish of the family Ictaluridae that is widely distributed in North America. It is a species of bullhead catfish and is similar to the black bullhead (Ameiurus melas) and yellow bullhead (Ameiurus natalis). It was originally described as Pimelodus nebulosus by Charles Alexandre Lesueur in 1819, and is ...
Genidens genidens. Genidens genidens, the Guri sea catfish or marine catfish, [2] is a species of catfish in the family Ariidae. [3] It was described by Georges Cuvier in 1829, originally under the genus Pimelodus. [1] It is known from southern South American rivers connected to the Atlantic Ocean. It is known to reach a total length of 42.5 cm ...
Synonyms. Pimelodes macropterus. Lichtenstein, 1819. Pimelodus ctenodus. Spix & Agassiz, 1829. Pimeletropis lateralis. Gill, 1859. Calophysus macropterus, also known as the Piracatinga, Vulture Catfish, or Zamurito, is a species of catfish (order Siluriformes) of the monotypic genus Calophysus of the family Pimelodidae. [1]