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  3. ›Vertebrates
  4. ›Ray-finned Fishes
  5. ›Carps, Characins, Catfishes and Allies
  6. ›Catfishes
  7. ›Siluroidei
  8. ›Banjo Catfishes
  9. ›Aspredininae
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Amaralia

Amaralia is a genus of catfish of the family Aspredinidae native to Amazon and Paraná-Paraguay basin. These species appear to be specialized to feed on the eggs of other catfishes; eggs found in Amaralia stomachs are thought to be those of loricariids.

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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 86367.