Cetopsis coecutiens
Lichtenstein, 1819
Synonyms
Silurus coecutiens
Silurus caecutiens
Bagre ciego
Blauer Walwels
Candiru
Candiru-açú
Canero
Piracatinga
Silurus caecutiens
Bagre ciego
Blauer Walwels
Candiru
Candiru-açú
Canero
Piracatinga
Length (total)
approx. 30 cm
Standard length (documented)
264.0 mm
Weight
0.378 kg
➀ Amazonas = rio Solimões, ➀ rio Xingu, ➀ rio Tapajós, ➀ rio Madeira, ➀ río Mamoré, ➀ rio Purus = río Purús, ➀ rio Trombetas, ➀ rio Negro, ➀ río Napo, ➀ río Ucayali, ➀ río Marañón, ➀ rio Pará = rio do Pará, ➀ rio Tocantins, ➀ rio Araguaia, ➀ río Orinoco, río Apure, rio Acre, ➀ río Aguarico, río Ampiyacu = río Ambyiacu, lago Dumbá Grande, rio Iça, igarapé Jacaré, ➀ lago Janauaca, ➀ rio Juruá = río Yuruá, lago Mamiá, río Orteguaza = río Orteguasa, lagoa Paru, río Portuguesa, río Santiago, río Sarare, laguna de Tumichucua, ➀ rio Uaupés, rio Vermelho, ➀ Amazonas = rio Solimões -, ➀ río Orinoco basin - widespread
Beni, Amazonas (BRA), Amazonas (VEN), Amazonas (COL), Acre, Amapá, Goiás, Mato Grosso, Pará (BRA), Rondônia, Caqueta, Loreto, Madre de Dios, Ucayali, Anzoátegui, Apure, Delta Amacuro, Guarico, Portuguesa
Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Peru,
Venezuela
rio Purus | río Napo | río Marañón | rio Japurá ⇒ Amazonas | rio Tocantins → rio Pará → baia de Marajó ⇒ Atlantic NE↓ río Apure ⇒ río Orinoco ➙ Caribic↓
Nutrition (mostly): carnivore
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
- Lichtenstein, M.H.C., 1819 "Ueber einige neue Arten von Fischen aus der Gattung Silurus" (Zoologisches Magazin) P. 61
- Oychynnyk, M.M., 1967 "Freshwater fishes of Ecuador and perspective for development of fish cultivation" (Latin American Study Center, State University of Michigan) P. 35
- Reis, R.E., Kullander, S.O. & Ferraris, C.J. et.al., 2003 "Check List of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America" P. 257
- 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. 3)
- 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. 803)
- 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 - Species deleted from the Colombian continental ichthyofauna" (ZooKeys, Vol. 708, P. 84)
- Abrahão, V.P. & Pinna, M.C.C. de, 2018 "Cetopsis varii, a new species of whale catfish (Siluriformes: Cetopsidae) from the Meta Basin, Colombia" (abstract) (Journal of Fish Biology, Vol. 93 No. 1, P. 117)
- Sousa França, F.M.de & Gubiani, E.A., 2025 "Length-weight and length-length relationships for freshwater fish species from the lower Araguaia River, Tocantins-Araguaia basin, Tocantins State, Brazil" (Neotropical Ichthyology, Vol. 23 No. 1)
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