Animalia > Chordata > Siluriformes > Heptapteridae > Rhamdia > Rhamdia cinerascens

Rhamdia cinerascens (Catfish; Guatemalan chulín; Pale catfish; Silver catfish; South American catfish)

Synonyms: Pimelodus cinerascens
Language: Creole, French; Djuka; Finnish; Galibi; German; Mandarin Chinese; Oyampi; Palicur; Portuguese; Saramaccan; Spanish; Wayana

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Upper Usumacinta Guatemala, Mexico Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Upland Rivers    

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Micropogonias furnieri (Whitemouth drummer)1
Odontesthes bonariensis (Silverside)1
Odontesthes humensis (Silverside)1
Oligosarcus jenynsii (Pike characin)1
Paralichthys orbignyanus1

Consumers

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 2Feeding strategy of the jundiá Rhamdia quelen (Siluriformes, Heptapteridae) in costal lagoons of southern Brazil, Mateus Tavares Kütter, Marlise de Azevedo Bemvenuti and Alex Moresco, Maringá, v. 31, n. 1, p. 41-47, 2009
♦ 3Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions 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