Apomatoceros
| Apomatoceros | |
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Scientific classification 
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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
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| Binomial name | |
| Apomatoceros alleni Eigenmann, 1922
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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]
References[edit]
- ^ Ferraris, Carl J. Jr. (2007). "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1418: 1–628.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2007). "Apomatoceros alleni" in FishBase. July 2007 version.
- ^ 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.