Big mouth catfish
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Lophiosilurus alexandri |
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The big mouth catfish (Pseudopimelodidae) live with seven genera and over 40 species in South America from the Río Atrato in Colombia to the Río de la Plata in Argentina .
features
The fish are 11 to 80 centimeters long, depending on the species, the name of the genus Microglanis suggests small specimens, which reach lengths of two to eight centimeters. The freshwater fish have small eyes, wide mouths and short barbels. They are usually brown in color, often with light and dark transverse bands. Small species are popular aquarium fish.
Systematics
The Pseudopimelodidae used to belong as a subfamily to the antenna catfish (Pimelodidae). Today they are the only family of the superfamily Pseudopimelodoidea.
- Family Pseudopimelodidae (big mouth catfish )
Lundberg, Bornbusch & Mago-Leccia , 1991
- Genus Batrochoglanis Gill , 1858
- Batrochoglanis acanthochiroides (Güntert , 1942)
- Batrochoglanis castaneus Shibatta , 2019
- Batrochoglanis melanurus Shibatta & Pavanelli , 2005
- Batrochoglanis raninus (Valenciennes , 1840) , formerly Pseudopimelodus raninus
- Batrochoglanis transmontanus (Regan , 1913)
- Batrochoglanis villosus (Eigenmann , 1912)
- Genus Cephalosilurus Haseman , 1911
- Cephalosilurus albomarginatus (Eigenmann , 1912) , formerly Pseudopimelodus albomarginatus
- Cephalosilurus apurensis (Mees , 1978)
- Cephalosilurus fowleri Haseman , 1911
- Cephalosilurus nigricaudus (Mees , 1974)
- Genus Cruciglanis Ortega-Lara & Lehmann , 2006
- Cruciglanis pacifici Ortega-Lara & Lehmann A. , 2006
- Genus Lophiosilurus Steindachner , 1876
- Lophiosilurus alexandri Steindachner , 1876
- Genus Microglanis Eigenmann , 1912
- Microglanis ater Ahl , 1936
- Microglanis carlae Alcaraz, da Graça & Shibatta , 2008
- Microglanis cibelae Malabarba & Mahler , 1998
- Microglanis cottoides (Boulenger , 1891)
- Microglanis eurystoma Malabarba & Mahler , 1998
- Microglanis garavelloi Shibatta & Benine , 2005
- Microglanis iheringi Gomes , 1946
- Microglanis leptostriatus Mori & Shibatta , 2006
- Microglanis lundbergi Jarduli & Shibatta , 2013
- Microglanis maculatus Shibatta , 2014
- Microglanis malabarbai Bertaco & Cardoso , 2005
- Microglanis nigripinnis Bizerril & Perez-Neto , 1992
- Microglanis parahybae (Steindachner , 1880)
- Microglanis pataxo Sarmento-Soares, Martins-Pinheiro, Aranda & Chamon , 2006
- Microglanis pellopterygius Mees , 1978
- Microglanis pleriqueater Mattos et al. , 2013
- Microglanis poecilus Eigenmann , 1912
- Microglanis secundus Mees , 1974
- Microglanis variegatus Eigenmann & Henn , 1914
- Microglanis zonatus Eigenmann & Allen , 1942
- Genus Pseudopimelodus Bleeker , 1858
- Pseudopimelodus bufonius (Valenciennes , 1840)
- Pseudopimelodus charus (Valenciennes , 1840)
- Pseudopimelodus mangurus (Valenciennes , 1835)
- Pseudopimelodus schultzi (Dahl , 1955)
- Genus Rhyacoglanis Shibatta & Vari , 2017
- Rhyacoglanis annulatus Shibatta & Vari , 2017
- Rhyacoglanis epiblepsis Shibatta & Vari , 2017
- Rhyacoglanis paranensis Shibatta & Vari , 2017
- Rhyacoglanis pulcher (Boulenger , 1887)
- Rhyacoglanis seminiger Shibatta & Vari , 2017
- Genus Batrochoglanis Gill , 1858
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literature
- Joseph S. Nelson : Fishes of the World . John Wiley & Sons, 2006, ISBN 0-471-25031-7 .
- Günther Sterba : Freshwater fish in the world . Weltbild Verlag., Augsburg 2002, ISBN 3-89350-991-7 .
- Axel Zarske: Pseudopimelodinae and Pseudopimelodus […]. In: Claus Schaefer, Torsten Schröer (Hrsg.): The large lexicon of aquaristics. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8001-7497-9 , pp. 823-825.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Shibatta, OA & Vari, RP (2017): A new genus of Neotropical rheophilic catfishes, with four new species (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Pseudopimelodidae) . Neotropical Ichthyology, 2: June 12, 2017.
Web links
Commons : Big mouth catfish (Pseudopimelodidae) - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Big mouth catfish on Fishbase.org (English)