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Hypophthalmus
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Hypophthalmus

Hypophthalmus is a genus of long-whiskered catfishes native to freshwater in tropical and subtropical South America.

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6 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 6 known species

Mapará

speciesHypophthalmus marginatus

Highwaterman Catfish

speciesHypophthalmus edentatus

Hypophthalmus fimbriatus

speciesHypophthalmus fimbriatus

Hypophthalmus oremaculatus

speciesHypophthalmus oremaculatus

Hypophthalmus celiae

speciesHypophthalmus celiae

Hypophthalmus donascimientoi

speciesHypophthalmus donascimientoi

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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 89020.