''Gelanoglanis'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...
of
fish
Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups. Approximately 95% of li ...
in the
family
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Auchenipteridae
The driftwood catfishes are catfishes of the family (biology), family Auchenipteridae. The two genera of the former family Ageneiosidae have been placed here, resulting in a grouping of about 125 species in about 22 genera.
These fish are found ...
native to
South America
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.
Species
There are currently 5 recognized species in this genus:
* ''
Gelanoglanis nanonocticolus''
Soares-Porto, S. J. Walsh, Nico
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& Netto, 1999
* ''
Gelanoglanis pan''
Calegari, R. E. dos Reis & Vari
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, 2014 [Calegari, B.B., Reis, R.E. & Vari, R.P. (2014)]
Miniature catfishes of the genus ''Gelanoglanis'' (Siluriformes: Auchenipteridae): monophyly and the description of a new species from the upper rio Tapajós basin, Brazil.
''Neotropical Ichthyology, 12 (4): 699–706.''
* ''
Gelanoglanis stroudi''
J. E. Böhlke, 1980
* ''
Gelanoglanis travieso''
Rengifo & Lujan, 2008
* ''
Gelanoglanis varii''
Calegari & R. E. dos Reis, 2016 [Calegari, B.B. & Reis, R.E. (2016): New species of the miniature genus ''Gelanoglanis'' (Siluriformes: Auchenipteridae) from the Tocantins River basin (Brazil) and osteological description of ''G. nanonocticolus''. ''Journal of Fish Biology, 90 (5): 1702-1716.'']
References
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Auchenipteridae
Catfish genera
Fish of South America
Freshwater fish genera
Taxa named by James Erwin Böhlke