Ochmacanthus

Ochmacanthus
Ochmacanthus reinhardtii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Siluriformes
Family:	Trichomycteridae
Subfamily:	Stegophilinae
Genus:	Ochmacanthus Eigenmann, 1912
Type species
Ochmacanthus flabelliferus Eigenmann, 1912
Synonyms
GyrinurusMiranda Ribeiro, 1912

Ochmacanthus is a genus of pencil catfishes native to South America. ^[1] These species are distributed in South America. O. alternus and O. orinoco originate from the Rio Negro and Orinoco River basins of Brazil and Venezuela. O. batrachstoma inhabits the Paraguay River basin in Brazil. O. flabelliferus lives in river drainages in Guyana and Venezuela. O. reinhardtii is known from the Amazon River basin in Brazil and drainages in French Guiana. ^[2]

Species

There are currently 5 recognized species in this genus:

• Ochmacanthus alternus G. S. Myers, 1927
• Ochmacanthus batrachostoma (A. Miranda-Ribeiro, 1912) ^[3]
• Ochmacanthus flabelliferus Eigenmann, 1912
• Ochmacanthus orinoco G. S. Myers, 1927
• Ochmacanthus reinhardtii (Steindachner, 1882)

References

1. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Ochmacanthus". FishBase . January 2016 version.
2. Ferraris, C.J. Jr. (2007). "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types" (PDF). Zootaxa . 1418: 1–628. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1418.1.1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-03-11. Retrieved 2007-07-29.
3. Neto, C.S. & de Pinna, M. (2016): Redescription of Ochmacanthus batrachostoma (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1912) (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae): a possible case of incipient paedomorphism. Neotropical Ichthyology, 14 (1): e150030.