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Blue Whale Catfish
Cetopsis coecutiens
Ceptosis coecutiens (Blue Whale Catfish) is a species of catfish throughout the amazon basin in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Peru and Venezuela. The fish was first described by Hinrich Lichtenstein in 1819, who named it for its resemblance to certain cetaceans. C. coecutiens is one of the largest species of "candiru" catfish. While these catfish are reported to grow to a size of 265mm, some specimens greater than 300mm have been caught in the wild.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 610021.