| Cambeva | |
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| 1911 illustration of C. davisi, type species | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Trichomycteridae |
| Subfamily: | Trichomycterinae |
| Genus: | Cambeva Katz, Barbosa, Mattos & Costa, 2018 |
| Type species | |
| Pygidium davisi Haseman, 1911 | |
| Species | |
65, see text. | |
Cambeva is a genus of catfishes (order Siluriformes) of the family Trichomycteridae. [1] [2]
The generic name Cambeva is the local term for these fishes in the Tupi language, a’kãg and pewa meaning "flat head", alluding to their dorsally flattened heads. [3] The Tupi phrase is also an alternate name for the local Omagua tribe of indigenous people, who traditionally practiced cranial deformation. The scientific name has also been used as a suffix to several proposed taxa that are now synonyms of Trichomycterus or Microcambeva ; Cryptocambeva, Megacambeva, Paracambeva, Psammocambeva, Pterocambeva and Trichocambeva, all erected as subgenera by Wilson José Eduardo Moreira da Costa in 2021. Microcambeva is now allocated to a different subfamily, Microcambevinae.
There are currently 65 recognized species in this genus: [4]
