The barred sorubim (''Pseudoplatystoma reticulatum''; es, link=no, surubí atigrado
) is a species 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 kno ...
native to the
Río de la Plata basin
The Río de la Plata basin ( es, Cuenca del Plata, pt, Bacia do Prata), more often called the River Plate basin in scholarly writings, sometimes called the Platine basin or Platine region, is the hydrographical area in South America that drains ...
and
Amazon basin
The Amazon basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries. The Amazon drainage basin covers an area of about , or about 35.5 percent of the South American continent. It is located in the countries of Bolivi ...
in South America.
[Buitrago-Suárez, Uriel Angel & Brooks M. Burr (2007).]
Taxonomy of the catfish genus Pseudoplatystoma Bleeker (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae) with recognition of eight species
; ''Zootaxa'' 1512: 1–38 (30-32). It reaches up to about in length.
References
Pimelodidae
Fish described in 1889
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