''Bergiaria'' is a small
genus
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of
long-whiskered catfishes native to
South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the southe ...
.
Species
There are currently two recognized species in this genus:
* ''
Bergiaria platana''
(Steindachner
Franz Steindachner (11 November 1834 in Vienna – 10 December 1919 in Vienna) was an Austrian zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist. He published over 200 papers on fishes and over 50 papers on reptiles and amphibians. Steindachner describ ...
, 1908)
* ''
Bergiaria westermanni''
( Lütken, 1874)
References
Pimelodidae
Fish of South America
Catfish genera
Taxa named by Carl H. Eigenmann
Freshwater fish genera
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