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    Trichomycteridae is a family of catfishes commonly known as pencil catfishes or parasitic catfishes. This family includes the candiru fish (Vandellia cirrhosa)...
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    Candiru (fish) (category Trichomycteridae)
    vampire fish, is a species of parasitic freshwater catfish in the family Trichomycteridae native to the Amazon basin where it is found in the countries of Bolivia...
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    Loricariidae (loricariid catfishes), Phreatobiidae (phreatobiid catfishes), Trichomycteridae (pencil catfishes), Sternopygidae (glass knifefishes), Amblyopsidae...
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    12 cm (4.7 in). Some of the smallest species of the Aspredinidae and Trichomycteridae reach sexual maturity at only 1 cm (0.39 in). The wels catfish, Silurus...
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    Function. Oxford University Press. pp. 281–282. ISBN 978-0-19-878555-2. Trichomycteridae ... includes obligate parasitic fish. Thus 17 genera from 2 subfamilies...
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  • Vandelliinae (category Trichomycteridae)
    Vandelliinae are a subfamily of catfishes (order Siluriformes) of the family Trichomycteridae. Vandelliines are hematophagous, feeding on the blood of larger fish...
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    Eremophilus (category Trichomycteridae)
    mutisii is a species of catfish (order Siluriformes) of the family Trichomycteridae, and the only member of its genus. This fish grows to about 30 centimetres...
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    Trichomycterus (category Trichomycteridae)
    Trichomycterus is a genus of fish in the family Trichomycteridae, the largest genus of its family with over 170 species currently described. This genus...
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    River, is a species of parasitic fresh water catfish in the family Trichomycteridae, just one of more than 1200 species of catfish in the Amazon basin...
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    Rhizosomichthys totae (category Trichomycteridae)
    English) is a species of catfish (order Siluriformes) of the family Trichomycteridae, and the only species of the genus Rhizosomichthys. This fish grew...
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    Callichthyidae: armored catfishes Family Pimelodidae: pimelodid catfishes Family Trichomycteridae: pencil catfishes Family Auchenipteridae: driftwood catfishes Subfamily...
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    This is a list of South American animals extinct in the Holocene that covers extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geologic epoch that began about 11...
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  • Vandellia (category Trichomycteridae)
    Robert E. (1987). "Redescription of Vandellia beccarii (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) from Guyana". Copeia. 1987 (1): 234–237. doi:10.2307/1446064. JSTOR 1446064...
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    superfamily of catfishes (order Siluriformes). It contains the six families Trichomycteridae, Nematogenyiidae, Callichthyidae, Scoloplacidae, Astroblepidae, and...
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    Agnolin, Federico L. (2009). "Primer registro fósil de la familia Trichomycteridae (Teleostei: Siluriformes; Plioceno) en la Formación Monte Hermoso,...
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  • profundus Family Cottidae Utah Lake sculpin (Cottus echinatus) Family Trichomycteridae Rhizosomichthys totae Family Bufonidae Atelopus vogli Golden toad (Incilius...
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    adipose fin is present. The opercle lacks spines. The Nematogenyidae and Trichomycteridae are sister groups that together form a clade sister to the families...
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  • Paracanthopoma parva (category Trichomycteridae)
    parva is a species of catfishes (order Siluriformes) of the family Trichomycteridae. P. parva grows to about 2.7 centimetres (1.1 in) SL and is endemic...
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  • Triacanthidae Triacanthodidae Triakidae Trichiuridae Trichodontidae Trichomycteridae Trichonotidae Triglidae Triodontidae Tripterygiidae Umbridae Uranoscopidae...
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    segment. Pygidium is also a superseded genus of fish of the family Trichomycteridae. Most species of this genus have been reassigned to the genus Trichomycterus...
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  • Trichogenes longipinnis (category Trichomycteridae)
    cambeva), is a species of catfish (order Siluriformes) of the family Trichomycteridae. T. longipinnis is endemic to coastal streams in the Atlantic forest...
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  • Trichomycterus diatropoporos (category Trichomycteridae stubs)
    "Taxonomic review of the genus Trichomycterus Valenciennes (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) from the laguna dos Patos system, Southern Brazil" (PDF). Neotropical...
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  • three different catfish families, Astroblepidae, Loricariidae and Trichomycteridae. The diet of the larvae is yet controversial, some say they feed on...
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  • Copionodon orthiocarinatus (category Trichomycteridae)
    orthiocarinatus is a species of catfish (order Siluriformes) of the family Trichomycteridae. It is found in the Mucujê River, a tributary of Paraguaçu River in...
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    Trichomycterinae (category Trichomycteridae)
    Trichomycterinae are a subfamily of catfishes (order Siluriformes) of the family Trichomycteridae. It includes six genera, Bullockia, Hatcheria, Rhizosomichthys, and...
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  • Megalocentor echthrus (category Trichomycteridae)
    echthrus is a species of catfish (order Siluriformes) of the family Trichomycteridae, and the only species of the genus Megalocentor. This fish grows to...
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  • Acanthopoma annectens (category Trichomycteridae)
    annectens is a species of catfish (order Siluriformes) of the family Trichomycteridae, and the only species of the genus Acanthopoma. This fish grows to...
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    Ituglanis (category Trichomycteridae)
    Ituglanis is a genus of small freshwater fish in the family Trichomycteridae native to South America. Their greatest diversity seems to occur in the Amazon...
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  • Stegophilinae (category Trichomycteridae)
    Stegophilinae are a subfamily of catfishes (order Siluriformes) of the family Trichomycteridae. It includes 12 genera: Acanthopoma, Apomatoceros, Haemomaster, Henonemus...
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