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Panaque
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Panaque

The genus Panaque contains a small number of small to medium-sized South American suckermouth armoured catfishes that are notable for being among the very few vertebrates that feed extensively on wood. In addition, algae and aufwuchs are an important part of the diet, and they use their rasping teeth to scrape this from rocks. These fish are also popular aquarium fish, where the sound of scraping as these fish forage for food is easily audible.

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7 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 7 known species

Royal panaque

speciesPanaque nigrolineatus

Armbruster's Pleco

speciesPanaque armbrusteri

Slender Panaque

speciesPanaque schaeferi

blue-eyed plec

speciesPanaque cochliodon

Titan Pleco

speciesPanaque titan

Threadtail Panaque

speciesPanaque bathyphilus

Sapphire-eyed Panaque

speciesPanaque suttonorum

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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 90640.