Tridens (fish)

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Tridens
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Family: Trichomycteridae
Subfamily: Tridentinae
Genus: Tridens
C. H. Eigenmann & R. S. Eigenmann, 1889 [1]
Type species
Tridens melanops
C. H. Eigenmann & R. S. Eigenmann, 1889 [2]

Tridens is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Trichomycteridae, the pencil and parasitic catfishes, and the subfamily Tridentinae, the pygmy pencil catfishes. The catfishes in this genus are found in South America. [3] Tridens is the type genus of the subfamily Tridentinae. [4]

Species

There are currently 3 recognized species in this genus: [3]

References

  1. ↑ Eigenmann, C. H.; Eigenmann, R. S. (1889). "Preliminary notes on South American Nematognathi, II". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. 2: 28–56 [53]. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.3477.
  2. ↑ Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Tridentinae". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 27 November 2025.
  3. 1 2 Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Tridens". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 27 November 2025.
  4. ↑ Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 1–230. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 . PMID   25543675.
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