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Giant Talking Catfish
Megalodoras uranoscopus
The giant talking catfish or giant raphael catfish (Megalodoras uranoscopus) is a species of thorny catfish that is native to the Amazon Basin in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. This species grows to a length of 60 centimetres (24 in) SL (for a female specimen) and a maximum weight of 4.6 kilograms (10 lb). These fish are a component of local commercial fisheries.
From the article Megalodoras uranoscopus on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
What it does
M. uranoscopus occurs in small groups and occasionally forms schools. This mainly diurnal species inhabits rivers and feeds on the fruits of Licania longipetala and Astrocaryum jauari in addition to pulmonate snails.
Wikipedia: “Ecology”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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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 341968.