GBIF·5201708speciesAnimalia11 occurrence recordsThe Nature Library · Catalogue of all life

Paracetopsis esmeraldas — Fig. 57. Vari, Ferraris Jr, de Pinna, 2005 (CC BY 4.0) · Plazi / Biodiversity Literature Repository. Found by name on iNaturalist, Wikimedia Commons and in the open-access papers that described the species (Plazi); click a picture for its credit and licence.

Fig. 57. Vari, Ferraris Jr, de Pinna, 2005 (CC BY 4.0) · Plazi / Biodiversity Literature Repository. Found by name on iNaturalist, Wikimedia Commons and in the open-access papers that described the species (Plazi); click a picture for its credit and licence.

IUCN NT · Near threatened

Paracetopsis esmeraldas

Paracetopsis esmeraldas Vari, Ferraris & de Pinna, 2005

Also calledPez ciego (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 Paracetopsis esmeraldas in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5201708.