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Driftwood Marbled Catfishes
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Driftwood Marbled Catfishes

Helogenes

Helogenes, the driftwood marbled catfishes, is a genus of ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Cetopsidae, the whale catfishes. The fishes in this genus are found in tropical South America.

Helogeneinae is the sister taxon of Cetopsinae, the other subfamily in the family Cetopsidae.

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4 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 4 known species

Dwarf Wood Catfish

speciesHelogenes marmoratus

Helogenes castaneus

speciesHelogenes castaneus

Helogenes gouldingi

speciesHelogenes gouldingi

Helogenes uruyensis

speciesHelogenes uruyensis

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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 88778.