Apomatoceros

<i>Apomatoceros</i>

Apomatoceros

Genus of fishes

Apomatoceros is a genus of catfish (order Siluriformes) of the family Trichomycteridae, its sole representative species being Apomatoceros alleni.[1] This fish grows to about 14.6 centimetres (5.7 in) SL and originates from the Amazon River.[2] The specific name honours the collector of the type, zoologist William Ray Allen (1885-1955) of Indiana University.[3]

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References

  1. [1]
    Ferraris, Carl J. Jr. (2007). "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1418: 1–628.
  2. [2]
    Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2007). "Apomatoceros alleni" in FishBase. July 2007 version.
  3. [3]
    Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (18 December 2018). "Order SILURIFORMES: Families DIPLOMYSTIDAE, CETOPSIDAE, TRICHOMYCTERIDAE and NEMATOGENYIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 11 July 2019.


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