long-whiskered catfish

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long-whiskered catfish

fish

Also known as: Pimelodidae

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ostariophysan
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Family Pimelodidae (long-whiskered catfishes) Similar to Bagridae but lack nasal barbels. Food, aquarium fishes. Size to 1.3 metres (about 4 feet), 65 kg (145 pounds). South and Central America. About 31 genera, at least 85 species. Family Trichomycteridae (candirus and other parasitic catfishes) Operculum (gill
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Family Pimelodidae (long-whiskered catfishes) Similar to Bagridae but lack nasal barbels. Food, aquarium fishes. Size to 1.3 metres (about 4 feet), 65 kg (145 pounds). South and Central America. About 31 genera, at least 85 species. Family Trichomycteridae (candirus and other parasitic catfishes) Operculum (gill
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