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Pimelodidae
Barred sorubim
Pseudoplatystoma fasciatum
One Hundred Five Centimeters Catfish of the Orinoco Basin
- Tropical
- Southern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Freshwater fish
- South America
- Fusiform
- Large
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Freshwater fish
Fusiform
LargeBarred sorubim is a freshwater fish from South America. It inhabits freshwater habitats. Records give a maximum length of 105 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Catfishes
- Family
- Pimelodidae
- Genus
- Pseudoplatystoma
- Maximum length
- 105 cm
- Water
- Freshwater
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- South America: Amazon, Corantijn, Essequibo, Orinoco and Paraná River basins.
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