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Miuroglanis platycephalus Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1889

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Common names: [No common name]
Occurrence: native
Salinity: freshwater
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Uses: live export: yes;
Comments: Known from Solimões (Ref. 39970) and Machado River basins (Ref. 97589). Type locality: Rio Jutahy, trib. Of Rio Solimoes, Amazonas, Brazil (Ref. 26282, 6868).
National Checklist:
Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/br.html
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Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: de Pínna, M.C.C. and W. Wosiacki, 2003
National Database:

Common names from other countries

微腺叉牙鲶, 微腺叉牙鯰, ... more

Classification / Names Nomi Comuni | Sinonimi | Catalog of Fishes(Genere, Specie) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

> Siluriformes (Catfishes) > Trichomycteridae (Pencil or parasitic catfishes) > Tridentinae
Etymology: Miuroglanis: Greek, mys = muscle, mouse + Greek, glanis = a fish that can eat the bait without touching the hook; a cat fish. Glanis was the sacred spirit of springs in the town of Glanum and there was the Glanicae, a triad of local mother goddesses (Ref. 45335).
  More on authors: Eigenmann & Eigenmann.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecologia

; acqua dolce demersale.   Tropical

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