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Banjo Catfishes
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Banjo Catfishes

Aspredinidae

The Aspredinidae are a small South American family of catfishes (order Siluriformes) also known as the banjo catfishes, with about 42 species.

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3 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 50 known species

Aspredininae

subfamilyAspredininae

Pseudobunocephalinae

subfamilyPseudobunocephalinae

Hoplomyzontinae

subfamilyHoplomyzontinae

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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 50978.