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Pimelodidae
Flatwhiskered catfish
Pinirampus pirinampu
Fish Reaching One Hundred Twenty Centimeters in the Amazon Basin
- Tropical
- Southern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Freshwater fish
- South America
- Fusiform
- Large
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Freshwater fish
Fusiform
LargePinirampus pirinampu is a species of catfish (order Siluriformes) of the family Pimelodidae. P. pirinampu is also known as the flatwhiskered catfish.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Catfishes
- Family
- Pimelodidae
- Genus
- Pinirampus
- Maximum length
- 120 cm
- Water
- Freshwater
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- South America: Amazon, Essequibo, Orinoco, and Paraná basins.
Class
Family
