Animalia > Chordata > Siluriformes > Trichomycteridae > Vandellia > Vandellia cirrhosaVandellia cirrhosa (Candiru)Synonyms: Plectrochilus erythrurus; Urinophilus erythrurus; Vandellia balzanii; Vandellia gigantea; Vandellia plazae (heterotypic); Vandellia plazaii Language: Danish; Finnish; German; Mandarin Chinese; Polish; Portuguese; Russian; Spanish Candiru (English and Portuguese or candirú in Spanish), Vandellia cirrhosa, also known as cañero, toothpick fish, or vampire fish, is a species of parasitic freshwater catfish in the family Trichomycteridae native to the Amazon Basin where it is found in the countries of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. The definition of candiru differs between authors. The word has been used to refer to only Vandellia cirrhosa, the entire genus Vandellia, the subfamily Vandelliinae, or even the two subfamilies Vandelliinae and Stegophilinae. |
Water Biome [1] | Rivers and Streams |
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Climate |
Land Use |
Mamore - Madre de Dios Piedmont |
Bolivia, Brazil, Peru |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Upland Rivers |
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IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
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Climate |
Land Use |
Manú National Park |
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4213523 |
Cusco, Peru |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.orgEcoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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