Potamarius

<i>Potamarius</i>

Potamarius

Genus of fishes

Potamarius is a genus of sea catfishes. The three species in this genus exclusively inhabit fresh water in southern Mexico and Guatemala. The individual species have relatively small ranges.[1] The highly endangered Paragenidens grandoculis of Brazil was long classified in Potamarius, but a 2019 study has found it to belong in its own genus.[2]

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Species

There are currently three described species in this genus:[1][2]

References

  1. [1]
    Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Potamarius in FishBase. December 2011 version.
  2. [2]
    Oliveira, Claudio; Gasparini, João Luiz Rosetti; Lima, Flávio César Thadeo; Ingenito, Leonardo Ferreira Da Silva; Marceniuk, Alexandre Pires (2019-04-18). "Systematics, biogeography and conservation of Paragenidens grandoculis n. gen. and n. comb. (Siluriformes; Ariidae), a critically endangered species from southeastern Brazil". Zootaxa. 4586 (3): 425–444. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4586.3.2. ISSN 1175-5334.


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