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Piraíba
Brachyplatystoma filamentosum
Brachyplatystoma filamentosum, the piraíba or kumakuma, is a species of large catfish of the family Pimelodidae that is native to Amazon and Orinoco River basins and fluvials in Guianas and northeastern Brazil. It is the largest catfish in the world.
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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 563994.