Cetopsidium pemon
Vari, Ferraris & de Pinna, 2005
dedicated Pemon (indigenous tribe)
Synonyms
unknown
Length (total)
approx. 6 cm
Standard length (documented)
42.6 mm
Bolívar (VEN), Amazonas (VEN), Apure, Roraima, Meta
Colombia, Venezuela
río Tirica ⇒ río Caroní | río Cinaruco | río Meta ⇒ río Orinoco → Caribic↓ rio Branco → rio Negro → Amazonas → Atlantic NE↓
[ 7.909,-63.037 ]
High above sea level
< 1300 m
Type of water
Black water
Eats plants
not known
unknown
not known
- 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. 144)
- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (I)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 131)
- 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)
- 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)
- Urbano-Bonilla, A.; Ballen, G.A.; Herrera-R, G.A.; Zamudio, J., Herrera-Collazos; E.E.; DoNascimiento, C.; Prada-Pedreros, S. & Maldonado-Ocampo, A., 2018 "Fishes of the Cusiana River (Meta River basin, Colombia), with an identification key to its species" (ZooKeys, No. 733, P. 78)
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