Animalia > Chordata > Siluriformes > Pimelodidae > Pimelodus > Pimelodus maculatus

Pimelodus maculatus (congo barbaso; Catfish)

Synonyms: Pimelodus clarias maculatus; Silurus lima (heterotypic)
Language: Finnish; German; Mandarin Chinese; Portuguese; Spanish

Attributes

Migration [1]  Potamodromous

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Bosque Mbaracayú Biosphere Reserve V 691895 Paraguay  
Estacion Biologica Beni Biosphere Reserve VI 335178 Bolivia  
Manú National Park II 4213523 Cusco, Peru  
Sierra del Divisor Reserve Zone 3652986 Peru      

Predators

Helicops leopardinus (Leopard Keelback)[2]
Serrasalmus brandtii (White piranha)[3]

Consumers

External References

Citations

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.org
♦ 2Natural History of the South American Water Snake Helicops leopardinus (Colubridae: Hydropsini) in the Pantanal, Central Brazil, Robson W. Ávila, Vanda L. Ferreira and Janaína A. O. Arruda, Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 274–279, 2006
♦ 3Dieta da pirambeba Serrasalmus brandtii Reinhardt (Teleostei, Characidae) em quatro lagoas marginais do rio São Francisco, Brasil, Paulo dos Santos Pompeu, Revta bras. Zool. 16 (Supl. 2): 19 - 26, 1999
♦ 4Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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