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Prochilodus
Prochilodus is a genus of freshwater fish from the family Prochilodontidae. This family include two other genera, Ichthyoelephas and Semaprochilodus, which have been included in Prochilodus instead. The greatest species richness of Prochilodus is in river basins in eastern, southeastern and southern Brazil, but there are also species in the river basins of the Amazon, Guianas, Colombia, Venezuela, Paraguay and northeastern Argentina. The largest species in the genus reach about 80 centimetres (31 in) in length, but...
13 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 13 known species
Streaked Prochilod
speciesProchilodus lineatus
Black prochilodus
speciesProchilodus nigricans
Prochilodus magdalenae
speciesProchilodus magdalenae
Prochilodus rubrotaeniatus
speciesProchilodus rubrotaeniatus
Prochilodus mariae
speciesProchilodus mariae
Prochilodus brevis
speciesProchilodus brevis
Prochilodus reticulatus
speciesProchilodus reticulatus
Prochilodus lacustris
speciesProchilodus lacustris
Prochilodus costatus
speciesProchilodus costatus
Prochilodus argenteus
speciesProchilodus argenteus
Ipanema Prochilod
speciesProchilodus vimboides
Prochilodus harttii
speciesProchilodus harttii
Prochilodus britskii
speciesProchilodus britskii
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 62621.