Ochmacanthus
Taxonavigation: Siluriformes |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Trichomycteridae
Subfamilia: Stegophilinae
Genus: Ochmacanthus
Species:
O. alternus –
O. batrachostomus –
O. flabelliferus –
O. orinoco –
O. reinhardtii
Name
[edit]Ochmacanthus Eigenmann, 1912
- Type species: Ochmacanthus flabelliferus Eigenmann, 1912
Etymology: from ochma (= hold) and acanthus (= spine), presumably referring to “claw-like erectile” opercular and preopercular spines on O. flabilliferus. (From The ETYFish project)
References
[edit]- Eigenmann, C.H. 1912. The freshwater fishes of British Guiana, including a study of the ecological grouping of species, and the relation of the fauna of the plateau to that of the lowlands. Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum 5(1): i–xxii + 1–578, Pls. 1–103. BHL Reference page.
Links
[edit]- Ochmacanthus and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
- Ochmacanthus species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.