Cetopsis pearsoni
Vari, Ferraris & de Pinna, 2005
dedicated Nathan E. Pearson
Synonyms
unknown
Length (total)
approx. 14 cm
Standard length (documented)
114.0 mm
Nutrition (mostly): carnivore
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. 189)
- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (I)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 132)
- 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. 804)
- 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)
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