Ochmacanthus

Taxonavigation: Loricarioidei

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Otomorpha Subcohors: Ostariophysi Sectio: Otophysa Ordo: Siluriformes Subordo: Loricarioidei

Familia: Trichomycteridae
Subfamilia: Stegophilinae
Genus: Ochmacanthus

Species: O. alternus – O. batrachostomus – O. flabelliferus – O. orinoco – O. reinhardtii

Name

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

• 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

• Ochmacanthus and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2026. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
• Ochmacanthus species list in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2026. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.