Plectrochilus
Genus of fishes
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Plectrochilus is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Trichomycteridae, the pencil and parasitic catfishes, and the subfamily Vandelliinae, the haematophagic catfishes. The catfishes in this genus are found in South America.
_473368702.jpg)
| Plectrochilus | |
|---|---|
| |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Trichomycteridae |
| Subfamily: | Vandelliinae |
| Genus: | Plectrochilus A. Miranda-Ribeiro, 1917[1] |
| Type species | |
| Plectrochilus machadoi Miranda Ribeiro, 1917[1] | |
Species
Plectrochilus contains the following valid species:[2]
- Plectrochilus diabolicus (Myers, 1927)
- Plectrochilus machadoi A. Miranda Ribeiro, 1917
- Plectrochilus wieneri (Pellegrin, 1909)
P. diabolicus and P. machadoi are found in the Amazon River basin in Brazil and Peru, while P. wieneri is found in the Napo River basin of Ecuador.[3]
P. diabolicus grows to 4.8 centimetres (1.9 in) SL.[4] P. machadoi grows to 9.3 cm (3.7 in).[5]
Specimens of P. machadoi have been found partially buried in the belly of a specimen of Pseudoplatystoma where it apparently had burrowed through the body wall.[5]