Apomatoceros

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Apomatoceros
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Family: Trichomycteridae
Subfamily: Stegophilinae
Genus: Apomatoceros
Eigenmann, 1922
Species:
A. alleni
Binomial name
Apomatoceros alleni
Eigenmann, 1922

Apomatoceros is a genus of catfish (order Siluriformes) of the family Trichomycteridae, its sole representative species being Apomatoceros alleni. [1] This fish grows to about 14.6 centimetres (5.7 in) SL and originates from the Amazon River. [2] The specific name honours the collector of the type, zoologist William Ray Allen (1885-1955) of Indiana University. [3]

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References

  1. Ferraris, Carl J. Jr. (2007). "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types" (PDF). Zootaxa . 1418: 1–628.
  2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2007). "Apomatoceros alleni" in FishBase . July 2007 version.
  3. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (18 December 2018). "Order SILURIFORMES: Families DIPLOMYSTIDAE, CETOPSIDAE, TRICHOMYCTERIDAE and NEMATOGENYIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 11 July 2019.