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Long-whiskered Catfishes
Pimelodidae
The Pimelodidae, commonly known as the long-whiskered catfishes, are a family of catfishes (order Siluriformes) native to South America. The family has a wide variety of body plans, and includes the largest South American catfish species, the piraíba. Many species, including the piraíba, are locally valued as food, and even more species are of interest to aquaria.
3 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 116 known species
Pimelodinae
subfamilyPimelodinae
Phractocephalinae
subfamilyPhractocephalinae
Sorubiminae
subfamilySorubiminae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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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 49176.