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"Vampire catfishes seek the aorta not the jugular: candirus of the genus Vandellia (Trichomycteridae) feed on major gill arteries of host fishes"

Zuanon, J. & Sazima, I.
"Vampire catfishes seek the aorta not the jugular: candirus of the genus Vandellia (Trichomycteridae) feed on major gill arteries of host fishes"
aqua International Journal of Ichthyology
Vol. 8 No. 1, P. 31, 2004
Species
Country
Origin
Length
(cm)
AQ
(cm)
T.
(°C)
Bree
ding
Vandellia cirrhosa
Valenciennes, 1846
 
Bolivien, Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru
Amazonas-, rio Solimões-, río Orinoco-Einzug, río Beni, río Napo, río Ucayali
(Amazonas, Pará, Loreto, Napo)
Vandellia cirrhosa
17
100
 
unknown
Vandellia sanguinea
Eigenmann, 1917
 
Bolivien, Brazil, Guyana, Colombia, Venezuela
Rio Madeira, Amazonas-, rio Solimões-, río Orinoco-Einzug
(AmazonasAmazonas (BRA) Amazonas (VEN))
Vandellia sanguinea, dorsal
7
60
 
unknown
2  entries found.
Many thanks to
for the pictures
Francis de Castelnau (1856) (PD)
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