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Cetopsidae, the Glossary

The Cetopsidae are a small family of catfishes (order Siluriformes), commonly called the whale catfishes.^[1]

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Catfish families

Amazon River

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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Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America.

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Aroa River (Venezuela)

The Aroa River (Río Aroa) is a river in northwestern Venezuela.

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Barbel (anatomy)

In fish anatomy and turtle anatomy, a barbel is a slender, whiskerlike sensory organ near the mouth.

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Brazil

Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.

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Caribbean

The Caribbean (el Caribe; les Caraïbes; de Caraïben) is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some of which border both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean; the nearby coastal areas on the mainland are sometimes also included in the region.

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Carrion

Carrion, also known as a carcass, is the decaying flesh of dead animals.

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Catfish

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

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Cetopsidium

Cetopsidium is a genus of catfishes (order Siluriformes) of the family Cetopsidae.

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Cetopsis

Cetopsis is a genus of catfishes (order Siluriformes) of the family Cetopsidae.

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Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.

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Cordillera

A cordillera is an extensive chain and/or network system of mountain ranges, such as those in the west coast of the Americas.

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Denticetopsis

Denticetopsis is a genus of catfishes (order Siluriformes) of the family Cetopsidae.

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Dorsal fin

A dorsal fin is a fin located on the back of most marine and freshwater vertebrates within various taxa of the animal kingdom.

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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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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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Gillnetting

Gillnetting is a fishing method that uses gillnets: vertical panels of netting that hang from a line with regularly spaced floaters that hold the line on the surface of the water.

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Helogenes

Helogenes is a genus of whale catfish found in tropical South America.

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Insect

Insects (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta.

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Integumentary system

The integumentary system is the set of organs forming the outermost layer of an animal's body.

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Juquiá River

The Juquiá River is a river of São Paulo state in southeastern Brazil.

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Lake Maracaibo

Lake Maracaibo (Lago de Maracaibo) is a brackish lake located in northwestern Venezuela, between the states of Zulia, Trujillo, and Mérida.

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Latitude

In geography, latitude is a coordinate that specifies the north–south position of a point on the surface of the Earth or another celestial body.

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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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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.

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Paracetopsis

Paracetopsis is a genus of whale catfishes found in tropical South America. Cetopsidae and Paracetopsis are fish of South America and taxa named by Pieter Bleeker.

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Parasitism

Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life.

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Peru

Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is a megadiverse country with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west to the peaks of the Andes mountains extending from the north to the southeast of the country to the tropical Amazon basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon River.

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Pieter Bleeker

Pieter Bleeker (10 July 1819 – 24 January 1878) was a Dutch medical doctor, ichthyologist, and herpetologist.

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Río de la Plata

The Río de la Plata, also called the River Plate or La Plata River in English, is the estuary formed by the confluence of the Uruguay River and the Paraná River at Punta Gorda.

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São Francisco River

The São Francisco River is a large river in Brazil.

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São Paulo (state)

São Paulo is one of the 26 states of the Federative Republic of Brazil and is named after Saint Paul of Tarsus.

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Sinú River

Sinú River, is a river in northwestern Colombia that flows mostly through the Córdoba Department and into the Caribbean.

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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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Swim bladder

The swim bladder, gas bladder, fish maw, or air bladder is an internal gas-filled organ that contributes to the ability of many bony fish (but not cartilaginous fish) to control their buoyancy, and thus to stay at their current water depth without having to expend energy in swimming.

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References

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

Also known as Cetopsid, Cetopsinae, Cetopsoidea, Helogeneidae, Whale catfish.

Cetopsidae, the Glossary

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Catfish families

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