Cetopsidium morenoi
Fernández-Yépez, 1972
Synonyms
Hemicetopsis morenoi
Pseudocetopsis morenoi
Pseudocetopsis morenoi
Length (total)
approx. 6 cm
Standard length (documented)
43.0 mm
Guárico, Meta
Colombia, Venezuela
río Guariquito → río Apurito | río Cinaruco | río Guárico → río Apure | río Metica → río Meta ⇒ río Orinoco → Caribic
[ 8.043,-66.424 ]
Eats plants
not known
unknown
not known
- Fernández-Yépez, A., 1972 "El genero Hemicetopsis Bleeker, 1863 (Cetopsidae) en Venezuela" (Lagena, Instituto Oceanografico, Universidad de Oriente)
- 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. 84)
- Pinna, M.C.C. de & Vari, R.P., 1995 "Monophyly and phylogenetic diagnosis of the family Cetopsidae, with synonymization of the Helogenidae (Teleostei: Siluriformes)" (Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, No. 571, P. 1)
- Ferraris, C.J., 2003 "Auchenipteridae, Pimelodidae, Aspredinidae, and Loricariidae" (The living marine resources of the Western Central Atlantic, Vol. 2, P. 259)
- Vari, R.P.; Ferraris, C.J.Jr. & Pinna, M.C.C.de, 2005 "The Neotropical whale catfishes (Siluriformes: Cetopsidae: Cetopsinae), a revisionary study" (Neotropical Ichthyology, Vol. 3 No. 2, P. 138)
- Pinna, M.C.C. de, Ferraris, C.J.Jr. & Vari, R.P., 2007 "A phylogenetic study of the neotropical catfish family Cetopsidae (Osteichthyes, Ostariophysi, Siluriformes), with a new classification" (Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Vol. 150 No. 4, P. 802)
- Pinna, M.C.C. de, Ferraris, C.J.Jr. & Vari, R.P., 2007 "A phylogenetic study of the neotropical catfish family Cetopsidae (Osteichthyes, Ostariophysi, Siluriformes), with a new classification" (Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Vol. 150 No. 4, P. 802)
- Vari, R.P. & Ferraris, C.J.Jr., 2009 "New species of Cetopsidium (Siluriformes: Cetopsidae: Cetopsinae) from the upper rio Branco system in Guyana" (Neotropical Ichthyology, Vol. 7 No. 3, P. 290)
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