Potamarius
Potamarius is a genus of sea catfishes. The three species in this genus exclusively inhabit fresh water in southern Mexico and Guatemala. The individual species have relatively small ranges.[1] The highly endangered Paragenidens grandoculis of Brazil was long classified in Potamarius, but a 2019 study has found it to belong in its own genus.[2]
| Potamarius | |
|---|---|
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| Potamarius nelsoni | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Ariidae |
| Subfamily: | Ariinae |
| Genus: | Potamarius C. L. Hubbs & R. R. Miller, 1960 |
| Type species | |
| Conorhynchos nelsoni Evermann & Goldsborough 1902 | |
| Species | |
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See text for species. | |
Species
There are currently three described species in this genus:[1][2]
- Potamarius izabalensis C. L. Hubbs & R. R. Miller, 1960
- Potamarius nelsoni (Evermann & Goldsborough, 1902) (Lacandon sea-catfish)
- Potamarius usumacintae Betancur-R. & Willink, 2007 (Usumacinta sea-catfish)
References
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Potamarius in FishBase. December 2011 version.
- Oliveira, Claudio; Gasparini, João Luiz Rosetti; Lima, Flávio César Thadeo; Ingenito, Leonardo Ferreira Da Silva; Marceniuk, Alexandre Pires (2019-04-18). "Systematics, biogeography and conservation of Paragenidens grandoculis n. gen. and n. comb. (Siluriformes; Ariidae), a critically endangered species from southeastern Brazil". Zootaxa. 4586 (3): 425–444. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4586.3.2. ISSN 1175-5334.
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