''Cetopsidium pemon'' is a species of

whale catfish The Cetopsidae are a small family of catfishes (order Siluriformes), commonly called the whale catfishes. Taxonomy This family contains five genera divided into two subfamilies, Cetopsinae and Helogeneinae. Helogeneinae was previously a family-l ...

found in the

Caroni River The name Caroni may refer to: *Caroní River, one of the biggest rivers of the Orinoco basin in Venezuela *Caroni River (Trinidad and Tobago), a major river on the island of Trinidad and Tobago *Caroni Swamp, a major wetland on the west coast of th ...

and the Caura River basins, southern tributaries of the Orinoco in eastern

Venezuela Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...

, the

Meta River The Meta River is a major left tributary of the Orinoco River in eastern Colombia and southern Venezuela, South America. The Meta originates in the Eastern Ranges of the Andes and flows through the Meta Department, Colombia as the confluence of ...

basin of the western portions of the

Orinoco The Orinoco () is one of the longest rivers in South America at . Its drainage basin, sometimes known as the Orinoquia, covers , with 76.3 percent of it in Venezuela and the remainder in Colombia. It is the fourth largest river in the wor ...

system in eastern

Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...

, and the upper portions of the

Branco River The Branco River ( pt, Rio Branco; Engl: ''White River'') is the principal affluent of the Rio Negro from the north. Basin The river drains the Guayanan Highlands moist forests ecoregion. It is enriched by many streams from the Tepui highlands w ...

in northern

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

References

* Cetopsidae Freshwater fish of Brazil Freshwater fish of Colombia Fish of Venezuela Fish described in 2005 {{siluriformes-stub