''Platysilurus'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of
long-whiskered catfish
The Pimelodidae, commonly known as the long-whiskered catfishes, are a family of catfishes (order Siluriformes).
Taxonomy
The family Pimelodidae has undergone much revision. Currently, it contains about 30 genera and about 90 recognized and know ...
es 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 sout ...
.
Taxonomy
''Platysilurus'' is classified under the "''
Calophysus-
Pimelodus
''Pimelodus'' is a genus of fish in the family (biology), family Pimelodidae native to Central America, Central and South America.
Species
There are currently 33 recognized species in this genus:
* ''Pimelodus absconditus'' María de las Mercede ...
'' clade". Within this clade, it is considered a part of the "Pimelodus-group" of Pimelodids, which also includes ''Pimelodus'', ''
Exallodontus'', ''
Duopalatinus'', ''
Cheirocerus'', ''
Iheringichthys'', ''
Bergiaria'', ''
Bagropsis'', ''
Parapimelodus'', ''
Platystomatichthys'', and ''
Propimelodus
''Propimelodus'' is a genus of South American catfish of the family Pimelodidae.
Taxonomy
The type species of this genus, ''P. eigenmanni'', was first described in 1946 under the genus ''Pimelodus''. In 2002, the genus ''Propimelodus'' was descr ...
''.
Species
There are currently three recognized species in this genus:
* ''
Platysilurus malarmo''
Schultz, 1944
* ''
Platysilurus mucosus''
( Vaillant, 1880)
* ''
Platysilurus olallae''
( Orcés-V. ( es), 1977)
Distribution
''P. malarmo'' is distributed in the
Lake Maracaibo basin. ''P. mucosus'' inhabits the
Amazon
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* Amazons, a tribe of female warriors in Greek mythology
* Amazon rainforest, a rainforest covering most of the Amazon basin
* Amazon River, in South America
* Amazon (company), an American multinational technolog ...
and
Orinoco River
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 ...
basins. ''P. olallae'' is found in
Ecuador
Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechua: ''Ikwadur Ripuwlika''; Shuar: ' ...
.
Description
''P. malarmo'' reaches 70
centimetre
330px, Different lengths as in respect to the Electromagnetic spectrum, measured by the Metre and its deriveds scales. The Microwave are in-between 1 meter to 1 millimeter.
A centimetre (international spelling) or centimeter (American spellin ...
s (28
in)
SL.
''P. mucosus'' grows to a length of at least 20 cm (7.9 in) SL.
References
Pimelodidae
Fish of South America
Fish of the Amazon basin
Catfish genera
Freshwater fish genera
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