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GBIF·2337993speciesAnimalia6 occurrence records
  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderSiluriformes
  4. ›familyCetopsidae
  5. ›genusCetopsis
Cetopsis pearsoni
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IUCN LC · Least concern

Cetopsis pearsoni

Cetopsis pearsoni Vari, Ferraris & de Pinna, 2005

Also calledbagre ballena (spa)

First described in: Vari, R. P.; Ferraris, C. J., Jr.; de Pinna, M. C. C. (2005). The neotropical whale catfishes (Siluriformes: Cetopsidae: Cetopsinae), a revisionary study. <em>Neotropical Ichthyology.</em> 3(2): 127-238.

This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.

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Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

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In the stacks

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Every page naming Cetopsis pearsoni in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2337993.