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Blue Whale Catfish

Cetopsis coecutiens

Classification

Cetopsis coecutiens, the candiru-açú, piracatinga, bagre ciego (lit. blind catfish), or the blue whale catfish, is a species of catfish found throughout the Amazon basin in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Peru and Venezuela. The fish was first described by Hinrich Lichtenstein in 1819, who named it for its resemblance to certain cetaceans.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Peru · 20