Pseudoplatystoma is a genus of several South American catfish species of family Pimelodidae. The species are known by a number of different common names. They typically inhabit major rivers where they prefer the main channels and tend to stay at maximum depth, but some species can also be seen in lakes, flooded forests, and other freshwater habitats. They have robust bodies, and are important food fish. Recently, their population size has been on the drastic decline due to a variety of factors including overfishing and habitat destruction due to the construction of hydroelectric dams.
Pseudoplatystoma is a genus of several South American catfish species of family Pimelodidae. The species are known by a number of different common names...
Pseudoplatystoma fasciatum or barred sorubim or barred catfish is a species of long-whiskered catfish native to the Suriname, Corantijn and Essequibo....
Pseudoplatystoma tigrinum, the tiger sorubim, tiger shovelnose or caparari is a species of long-whiskered catfish native to the Amazon Basin in South America...
Pseudoplatystoma corruscans, the spotted sorubim, is a species of long-whiskered catfish native to the São Francisco and Paraná—Paraguay River basins in...
Pseudoplatystoma punctifer or spotted tiger shovelnose catfish is a species of long-whiskered catfish native to the Amazon basin, in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia...
The barred sorubim (Pseudoplatystoma reticulatum; Spanish: surubí atigrado) is a species of long-whiskered catfish native to the Río de la Plata basin...
Pseudoplatystoma magdaleniatum, the striped sorubim, is a species of long-whiskered catfish native to South America. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds...
through the oviduct. Many catfish are cystovarian in type, including Pseudoplatystoma corruscans, P. fasciatum, Lophiosilurus alexandri, and Loricaria lentiginosa...
blue whiting, ling and tusk. In South America, catfish of the genera Pseudoplatystoma are used to produce a salted, dried and frozen product typically sold...
as Sorubim, Pseudoplatystoma, and Brachyplatystoma. This genus forms a monophyletic group with Sorubim, Sorubimichthys, Pseudoplatystoma, and Zungaro...
strongly ornamented pectoral spines. Other large pimelodids, such as Pseudoplatystoma, Sorubim, and Sorubimichthys, whose young inhabit vegetated, marginal...
up the Paraguay River to spawn, including Prochilodus lineatus and Pseudoplatystoma corruscans. Unsurprisingly many species in the river are essentially...
The redtail catfish has been hybridized with other fish, such as the Pseudoplatystoma or Tiger Shovelnose Catfish, through the use of hormones, in attempts...
Pimelodus blochii, Potamotrygon magdalenae, Prochilodus magdalenae, Pseudoplatystoma magdaleniatum and Salminus affinis. About 55% of the fish species in...
bermudensis Y Y Barred hamlet Hypoplectrus puella Y Y Barred sorubim Pseudoplatystoma fasciatum Y Y Barrelfish Hyperoglyphe perciformis Y Y Basking shark...
Spotted sorubim Pseudoplatystoma corruscans, a catfish-like species of South American rivers (less often:) tiger sorubim Pseudoplatystoma fasciatum, known...
the food chain that ends with larger fish like the surubí catfish (Pseudoplatystoma) and golden dorado (Salminus brasiliensis). Regulations in place in...
significantly older. The site is also well known as the habitat of Pseudoplatystoma, a genus of several South American catfish. Benjamins, Herman Daniël;...
*βato(m) 'parrot (species of family Psittacidae)' *βawa 'fish species (Pseudoplatystoma corruscans)' *βawi(n) 'to fetch, to search' *βɨ- 'comitative' *-βɨt...
the gilded catfish or jau (Zungaro zungaro) and the Spotted sorubim (Pseudoplatystoma corruscans) in Brazil. Paraproteocephalus Chen, 1962 is a monotypic...
P. A. Van Damme (2004). "Ectoparasites (Crustacea: Branchiura) of Pseudoplatystoma fasciatum (surubí) and P. tigrinum (chuncuina) in Bolivian whitewater...
machadoi have been found partially buried in the belly of a specimen of Pseudoplatystoma where it apparently had burrowed through the body wall. Froese, Rainer...
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