Tridensimilis
Sign in to saveTridensimilis is a monotypic 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 only species in this genus is Tridensimilis venezuelae.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Tridensimilis is referenced by 4 other articles, and connects out to Venezuela, Animalia and Chordata.
Vinony files it under Catfish genera, Catfish of South America and Freshwater fish genera.
Its subject is documented across 7 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderSiluriformes
- FamilyTrichomycteridae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 7
- Family
- Trichomycteridae
- Collections
- INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA (INPA), LACM
- Recorded in
- Bolivia, Brasil, Peru
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Tridensimilis is a monotypic 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 only species in this genus is Tridensimilis venezuelae.
T. venezuelae is distributed in the Orinoco basin in Venezuela. It grows to about TL.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tridensimilis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.