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Aspredinidae, the Glossary

The Aspredinidae are a small South American family of catfishes (order Siluriformes) also known as the banjo catfishes, with about 43 species.^[1]

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Catfish families
Taxa named by Arthur Adams (zoologist)

Amaralia

Amaralia is a genus of catfish of the family Aspredinidae native to Amazon and Paraná-Paraguay basin. Aspredinidae and Amaralia are fish of South America.

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The Amazon River (Río Amazonas, Rio Amazonas) in South America is the largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and the longest or second-longest river system in the world, a title which is disputed with the Nile. The headwaters of the Apurímac River on Nevado Mismi had been considered for nearly a century the Amazon basin's most distant source until a 2014 study found it to be the headwaters of the Mantaro River on the Cordillera Rumi Cruz in Peru.

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Andes

The Andes, Andes Mountains or Andean Mountain Range are the longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a continuous highland along the western edge of South America.

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Arthur Adams (zoologist)

Arthur Adams (1820 in Gosport, Hampshire – 1878) was an English physician and naturalist.

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Asia

Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population.

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Aspredinichthys

Aspredinichthys is a genus of banjo catfishes found in fresh and brackish waters in tropical South America from the Orinoco delta, through the Guianas, to the Amazon delta.

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Aspredinidae

The Aspredinidae are a small South American family of catfishes (order Siluriformes) also known as the banjo catfishes, with about 43 species. Aspredinidae and Aspredinidae are catfish families, fish of South America and taxa named by Arthur Adams (zoologist).

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Aspredo

Aspredo aspredo is the only species of banjo catfish (order Siluriformes) in the genus Aspredo.

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Atrato River

The Atrato River is a river of northwestern Colombia.

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Banjo

The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator.

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Benthos

Benthos, also known as benthon, is the community of organisms that live on, in, or near the bottom of a sea, river, lake, or stream, also known as the benthic zone.

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Bunocephalus

Bunocephalus is a genus of banjo catfishes from South America.

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Camouflage

Camouflage is the use of any combination of materials, coloration, or illumination for concealment, either by making animals or objects hard to see, or by disguising them as something else.

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Catfish

Catfish (or catfishes; order Siluriformes or Nematognathi) are a diverse group of ray-finned fish.

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Cladistics

Cladistics is an approach to biological classification in which organisms are categorized in groups ("clades") based on hypotheses of most recent common ancestry.

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Doradidae

The Doradidae are a family of catfishes also known as thorny catfishes, raphael catfishes or talking catfishes. Aspredinidae and Doradidae are catfish families.

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Driftwood catfish

The driftwood catfishes are catfishes of the family Auchenipteridae.

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Dupouyichthys

Dupouyichthys is genus of banjo catfishes in the family Aspredinidae.

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Erethistidae

Erethistidae are a family of catfishes that originate from southern Asia. Aspredinidae and Erethistidae are catfish families.

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Ernstichthys

Ernstichthys is a genus of banjo catfishes that occurs in the Amazon and Orinoco basins.

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Family (biology)

Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.

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Fish fin

Fins are moving appendages protruding from the body of fish that interact with water to generate thrust and help the fish swim.

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Fish measurement

Fish measurement is the measuring of individual fish and various parts of their anatomies, for data used in many areas of ichthyology, including taxonomy and fishery biology.

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Fishes of the World

Fishes of the World is a standard reference for the systematics of fishes.

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Fossorial

A fossorial animal is one that is adapted to digging and which lives primarily (but not solely) underground.

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Genus

Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.

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Hoplomyzon

Hoplomyzon is a genus of banjo catfishes that are native to tropical South America.

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Hoplomyzon papillatus

Hoplomyzon papillatus is a species of banjo catfish found in Ecuador and Venezuela where it occurs in the Napo and Portuguesa River basins respectively.

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Hoplomyzon sexpapilostoma

Hoplomyzon sexpapilostoma is a species of banjo catfish endemic to Venezuela where it is found in the Orinoco River basin.

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Ichthyology & Herpetology

Ichthyology & Herpetology (formerly Copeia) is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research in ichthyology and herpetology that was originally named after Edward Drinker Cope, a prominent American researcher in these fields.

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Invertebrate

Invertebrates is an umbrella term describing animals that neither develop nor retain a vertebral column (commonly known as a spine or backbone), which evolved from the notochord.

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Keratin

Keratin is one of a family of structural fibrous proteins also known as scleroproteins.

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List of fish families

This is a list of fish families sorted alphabetically by scientific name.

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List of freshwater aquarium fish species

A vast number of freshwater species have successfully adapted to live in aquariums.

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Magdalena River

The Magdalena River (Río Magdalena,; less commonly Rio Grande de la Magdalena) is the main river of Colombia, flowing northward about through the western half of the country.

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Micromyzon

Micromyzon is a genus of tiny catfish in the family Aspredinidae native to relatively deep parts of the Amazon and Orinoco basins in South America.

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Mochokidae

The Mochokidae are a family of catfishes (order Siluriformes) that are known as the squeakers or known as upside-down catfish (although not all species swim upside-down). Aspredinidae and Mochokidae are catfish families.

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Omnivore

An omnivore is an animal that has the ability to eat and survive on both plant and animal matter.

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Order (biology)

Order (ordo) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.

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Orinoco

The Orinoco is one of the longest rivers in South America at. Its drainage basin, sometimes known as the Orinoquia, covers ca 1 million km2, with 65% of it in Venezuela and the 35% in Colombia. It is the fourth largest river in the world by discharge volume of water. The nevertheless high volume flow (39,000 m3/s at delta) of the Orinoco can be explained by the high precipitation in almost the entire catchment area (ca 2,300 mm/a).

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Ostariophysi

Ostariophysi is the second-largest superorder of fish.

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Paraguay River

The Paraguay River (Ysyry Paraguái in Guarani, Rio Paraguai in Portuguese, Río Paraguay in Spanish) is a major river in south-central South America, running through Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina.

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Paraná River

The Paraná River (Rio Paraná; Río Paraná; Ysyry Parana) is a river in south-central South America, running through Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina for some."Parana River". Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2012.

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Patía River

The Patía River is a river in southwestern Colombia.

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Platystacus

Platystacus is a genus of banjo catfish in the family Aspredinidae.

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Pseudobunocephalus

Pseudobunocephalus is a genus of banjo catfishes. Aspredinidae and Pseudobunocephalus are fish of South America.

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Pterobunocephalus

Pterobunocephalus is a genus of banjo catfishes found in tropical South America.

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San Juan River (Colombia)

The San Juan River is a Colombian river that flows into the Pacific Ocean through the Chocó Department.

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São Francisco River

The São Francisco River is a large river in Brazil.

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Sexual dimorphism

Sexual dimorphism is the condition where sexes of the same species exhibit different morphological characteristics, particularly characteristics not directly involved in reproduction.

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Shoaling and schooling

In biology, any group of fish that stay together for social reasons are shoaling, and if the group is swimming in the same direction in a coordinated manner, they are schooling.

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Sisoroidea

Sisoroidea is a superfamily of catfishes (order Siluriformes).

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South America

South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Tropics

The tropics are the regions of Earth surrounding the Equator.

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Tubercle

In anatomy, a tubercle (literally 'small tuber', Latin for 'lump') is any round nodule, small eminence, or warty outgrowth found on external or internal organs of a plant or an animal.

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Uruguay River

The Uruguay River (Río Uruguay; Rio Uruguai) is a major river in South America. It flows from north to south and forms parts of the boundaries of Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, separating some of the Argentine provinces of La Mesopotamia from the other two countries. It passes between the states of Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil; forms the eastern border of the provinces of Misiones, Corrientes and Entre Ríos in Argentina; and makes up the western borders of the departments of Artigas, Salto, Paysandú, Río Negro, Soriano and Colonia in Uruguay.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspredinidae

Also known as Acanthobunocephalus, Aspredinid, Banjo catfish, Banjo fish.

, Shoaling and schooling, Sisoroidea, South America, Tropics, Tubercle, Uruguay River, Wiley (publisher), Xyliphius, Zootaxa.

Aspredinidae, the Glossary

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Catfish families

Taxa named by Arthur Adams (zoologist)

References