Overview
Family : Thorny catfishes ;
Interesting Facts
Common Names
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Common Names in Mandarin Chinese:
斑点陶乐鲶, 斑點陶樂鯰
Common Names in Spanish:
Bagre Hueso, Pirillo
Description
Habitat
Biome: Marine .
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
()
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
()
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
()
- auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Osteichthyes
()
- Huxley, 1880
- Class:
Osteichthyes
()
- Huxley, 1880
- Subclass:
Actinopterygii
()
- Infraclass:
Actinopteri
()
- Cohort:
Clupeocephala
()
- Order:
Siluriformes
()
- Order:
Siluriformes
(
- Cohort:
Clupeocephala
(
- Infraclass:
Actinopteri
(
- Subclass:
Actinopterygii
(
- Class:
Osteichthyes
(
- Superclass:
Osteichthyes
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Comment: Subgenus
: Corydoras. Species incertae sedis
in Doradidae;
species to be transferred to a new genus (Sabaj, in prep.) (Ref.
37054).
Last scrutiny: Data
last modified by FishBase 20-Jun-2001
Similar Species
Members of the genus Doras
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 10 species and subspecies in this genus:
D. albomaculatus (Spotted Raphael Catfish) · D. armatulus (Southern Striped Raphael) · D. dorsalis (Doras à Ècussons Dorsaux) · D. granulosus (Granulated Catfish) · D. hancockii (Croaking Spiny Catfish) · Pterodoras granulosus (Catfish) · D. micropoeus (Poson Agouti) · D. niger (Black Shielded Catfish) · D. pectinifrons (Spotted Raphael Catfish) · D. spinosissimus (Croaking Catfish)
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Further Reading
- A revision of the South American Nematognathi or cat-fishes / by Carl H. Eigenmann and Rosa Smith Eigenmann. San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, 1890. url p. 255.
- Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum / by Albert Gu?nther. .. [Tokyo?]: Kagaku Kisho Hakkokai, Sho?wa 13 [1938]. url p. 207.
- Fishes of western South America. I. The intercordilleran and Amazonian lowlands of Peru. II. The high pampas of Peru, Bolivia, and northern Chile. With a revision of the Peruvian Gymnotidae and of the genus Orestias [by] Carl H. Eigenmann. .. [and] William Ray Allen. .. Lexington, Ky., The University of Kentucky, 1942. url p. 133, p. 47, p. 49.
- Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url p. 110.
- The fishes of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. .. by Dr. Max Weber. .. and Dr. L.F. de Beaufort. Leiden, E.J. Brill, Ltd., 1911- url p. 162.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 01, 2008:
- FishBase: FishBase DiGIR Provider - Philippine Server
- GBIF-Sweden: Fishes (NRM)
- Royal Ontario Museum: Fish specimens
- Senckenberg: Collection Pisces
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3865494
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-141911
- Fishbase Species ID: 58102
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 681240
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 109525
