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Tiny Pencil Catfishes
Tridentinae
Tridentinae is a subfamily of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Trichomycteridae, the pencil and parasitic catfishes. These catfishes are commonly nown as the tiny pencil catfishes. The species in this subfamily are found in South America. Tridentinae are characterised by having a very long anal fin which is supported by in excess of 15 fin rays.
5 branches of this subfamily, most-observed first · about 11 known species
Tridentopsis
genusTridentopsis
Rhinotridens
genusRhinotridens
Miuroglanis
genusMiuroglanis
Tridensimilis
genusTridensimilis
Tridens
genusTridens
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 788453.