The fish at top is a Brachyplatystoma rousseauxii, and that below is an unidentified Brachyplatystoma.
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Actinopterygii
Order:
Siluriformes
Family:
Pimelodidae
Genus:
Brachyplatystoma Bleeker, 1862
Type species
Platystoma vaillantii
Valenciennes, 1840
Species
See text.
Synonyms
Piramutana Bleeker, 1858
Piratinga Bleeker, 1858
Taenionema Eigenmann & Bean, 1907
Goslinia Myers, 1941
Ginesia Fernández-Yépez, 1951
Merodontotus Britski, 1981
Brachyplatystoma is a genus of catfish from the family Pimelodidae.[1] As the occasionally used common name goliath catfishes indicates, this genus includes some of the largest species of catfish, including the piraíba, B. filamentosum, which reaches up to the region of 3.6 metres (12 ft) in length. Brachyplatystoma are found in the Amazon and Orinoco basins, and other tropical freshwater and brackish habitats in South America. Some species are migratory. These fish are important as food fish and, to some extent, aquarium fish.
^Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Brachyplatystoma in FishBase. February 2012 version.
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synonymized. Merodontotus and Goslinia are now both included under Brachyplatystoma. Also, Paulicea is now a synonym of Zungaro. The six main groups within...
fisheries, including well-known species of large catfish (such as Brachyplatystoma, which perform long breeding migrations up the Amazon), arapaima and...
18-year-old boy, as well as a water buffalo.[citation needed] Piraíba (Brachyplatystoma filamentosum) can grow exceptionally large and are native to the Amazon...
dispersal. A key species which is overfished, the Piramutaba catfish, Brachyplatystoma vaillantii, migrates more than 3,300 km (2,100 mi) from its nursery...
Zungaro jahu. This species may be referred to by one of its synonyms, Brachyplatystoma flavicans. This species contains two subspecies, Z. z. mangurus and...
catfish 'walk' overland on their ventral fins, while the kumakuma (Brachyplatystoma filamentosum), aka piraiba or "goliath catfish", can reach 3.6 m (12 ft)...
reliably to 4.3 m (14 ft). In South America there also exists the Brachyplatystoma filamentosum, which can reportedly reach up to 3.6 m (12 ft) and 200 kg...
fisheries and based on a review by IBAMA, they are the second (after Brachyplatystoma vaillantii) most caught fish by weight in the Brazilian Amazon. FishBase...
half that size in the Amazon. Platynematichthys and its sister group Brachyplatystoma are the only genera in the tribe Brachyplatystomatini. These two genera...
the third most caught taxon in the Brazilian Amazon by weight, after Brachyplatystoma vaillantii and Semaprochilodus spp. The black prochilodus is migratory...
'the mother of all catfishes', the piraíba. Featured animals Piraíba (Brachyplatystoma filamentosum) Redtail catfish (Phractocephalus hemioliopterus) Gilded...
parva has been found on the gills of another species of giant catfish, Brachyplatystoma vaillanti. Species within the genus Paracanthopoma have the longest...
contribution to making scientific knowledge available for all researchers." Brachyplatystoma elbakyani [es], an extinct species of catfish discovered by Argentine...
fish only is matched by the arapaima (Arapaima) and piraíba catfish (Brachyplatystoma filamentosum). In each species in the family Potamotrygonidae, females...
as other, more popular food fishes such as Colossoma, Arapaima, and Brachyplatystoma. Some species of this family are popular aquarium fish. The genus name...
catfish that includes genera such as Sorubim, Pseudoplatystoma, and Brachyplatystoma. This genus forms a monophyletic group with Sorubim, Sorubimichthys...
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