Bunocephalus verrucosus
Walbaum, 1792
(Type species)
Synonyms
Silurus verrucosus
has Agmus lyriformis
has Aspredo verrucosa
has Bunocephalichthys gronovii
has Bunocephalus scabriceps
has Platystacus verrucosus
Aspredo gronovii
Craggy Banjo Catfish
Großkopf-Bratpfannenwels
High-back Banjo
has Agmus lyriformis
has Aspredo verrucosa
has Bunocephalichthys gronovii
has Bunocephalus scabriceps
has Platystacus verrucosus
Aspredo gronovii
Craggy Banjo Catfish
Großkopf-Bratpfannenwels
High-back Banjo
Length (total)
approx. 11 cm
Standard length (documented)
95.0 mm
Recommended tank size
80 cm
Eats plants
not known
unknown
Not on the positive list of Brazil in 2012 : The positive list of Brazil
Not on the negative list of Brazil from 2020 : The negative list of Brazil
Not on the negative list of Brazil from 2020 : The negative list of Brazil
- Reis, R.E., Kullander, S.O. & Ferraris, C.J. et.al., 2003 "Check List of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America" P. 263
- Walbaum, J.J., 1792 "Petri Artedi sueci genera piscium. In quibus systema totum ichthyologiae proponitur cum classibus, ordinibus, generum characteribus, specierum differentiis, observationibus plurimis" (Ichthyologiae, Vol. 3, P. 574)
- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (I)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 60)
- Cardoso, A.R., 2010 "Bunocephalus erondinae, a new species of banjo catfish from southern Brazil (Siluriformes: Aspredinidae)" (Neotropical Ichthyology, Vol. 8 No. 3, P. 612)
- Barriga, R., 2011 "Lista de peces de agua dulce e intermareales del Ecuador" (Revista Politécnica, Vol. 30 No. 3, P. 110)
- DoNascimiento, C.; Herrera-Callazos, E.E.; Herrera-R., G.A.; Ortega-Lara, A.; Villa-Navarro, F.A.; Oviedo, J.S.U. & Maldonado-Ocampo, J.A., 2017 "Checklist of the freshwater fishes of Colombia: a Darwin Core alternative to the updating problem" (ZooKeys, Vol. 708, P. 85)
- Esguícero, A.L.H.; Corrêa e Castro, R.M. & Pereira, T.N.A., 2020 "Bunocephalus hertzi, a new banjo catfish from the upper Rio Paraná basin, Brazil (Siluriformes: Aspredinidae), with the redescription of Bunocephalus larai Ihering, 1930" (Zootaxa, Vol. 4742 No. 1, P. 115)
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