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Pantanal dwarf catfish

Scoloplax empousa

Classification

Scoloplax is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes, it is the only genus in the monotypic family Scoloplacidae, the spiny dwarf catfishes. The catfishes in this genus are found in South America. Taxonomy Scoloplax was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1976 by the American ichthyologists Reeve Maclaren Bailey and Jonathan N.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Brazil · 5