Tatia

Tatia
Tatia intermedia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Siluriformes
Family:	Auchenipteridae
Subfamily:	Centromochlinae
Genus:	Tatia A. Miranda-Ribeiro, 1911
Type species
Centromochlus intermedius Steindachner, 1877

Tatia is a genus of small South American catfishes belonging to Auchenipteridae, the driftwood catfish family.

Species

These are the currently recognized species in this genus: ^[1]

• Tatia akroa Souza, Sarmento-Soares, Canto & Ribeiro, 2020
• Tatia aulopygia (Kner, 1858)
• Tatia bockmanni (Sarmento-Soares & Buckup, 2005)
• Tatia boemia W. R. Koch & R. E. dos Reis, 1996
• Tatia britskii (Sarmento-Soares & Birindelli, 2015) ^[2]
• Tatia brunnea Mees, 1974
• Tatia caudosignata DoNascimiento, Albornoz-Garzón & García-Melo, 2019
• Tatia caxiuanesis Sarmento-Soares & Martins-Pinheiro, 2008
• Tatia concolor Mees, 1974
• Tatia creutzbergi (Boeseman, 1953)
• Tatia dunni (Fowler, 1945)
• Tatia galaxias Mees, 1974
• Tatia gyrinus (C. H. Eigenmann & W. R. Allen, 1942)
• Tatia intermedia (Steindachner, 1877)
• Tatia jaracatia Pavanelli & Bifi, 2009
• Tatia luisae Ribeiro, Silva-Oliveira, da Silva & Canto, 2022 ^[3]
• Tatia marthae Vari & Ferraris, 2013 ^[4]
• Tatia meesi Sarmento-Soares & Martins-Pinheiro, 2008
• Tatia neivai R. Ihering (pt), 1930
• Tatia nigra Sarmento-Soares & Martins-Pinheiro, 2008
• Tatia punctata Mees, 1974
• Tatia reticulata Mees, 1974
• Tatia simplex Mees, 1974 ^[2]
• Tatia strigata Soares-Porto, 1995

References

1. Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Tatia". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 29 October 2025.
2. Sarmento-Soares, L.M.; Birindelli, J.L.O. (2015). "A new species of the catfish genus Centromochlus (Siluriformes: Auchenipteridae: Centromochlinae) from the upper rio Paraná basin, Brazil" (PDF). Neotropical Ichthyology. 13 (1): 77–86. doi:10.1590/1982-0224-20140042.
3. Frank Raynner V. Ribeiro; Cárlison Silva-Oliveira; Alberto Conceição F. da Silva; André L. Colares Canto (2022). "New Species of Driftwood Catfish of Tatia (Siluriformes: Auchenipteridae) from rio Tapajós, Brazil". Neotrop Ichthyol. 20 (2) e210164. doi: 10.1590/1982-0224-2021-0164 .
4. Vari, R.P.; Ferraris Jr., C.J. (2013). "Two New Species of the Catfish Genus Tatia (Siluriformes: Auchenipteridae) from the Guiana Shield and a Reevaluation of the Limits of the Genus". Copeia. 2013 (3): 396–402. doi:10.1643/CI-12-115.