Species details : Brachyplatystoma rousseauxii (Castelnau, 1855)

Accepted scientific name:
Brachyplatystoma rousseauxii (Castelnau, 1855) (accepted name) 1 literature reference for Brachyplatystoma rousseauxii  (Castelnau, 1855)
Synonyms:
Bagrus goliath Kner, 1858 (synonym) 1 literature reference for Bagrus goliath Kner, 1858
Bagrus rousseauxii Castelnau, 1855 (synonym) 1 literature reference for Bagrus rousseauxii Castelnau, 1855
Brachyplatystoma paraense Steindachner, 1909 (synonym) 1 literature reference for Brachyplatystoma paraense Steindachner, 1909
Common names:
Common name Transliteration Language Country
帕拉短平口鯰 Pa la duan ping kou nian Mandarin Chinese China Click here to show the literature
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帕拉短平口鲶 Pa la duan ping kou nian Mandarin Chinese China Click here to show the literature
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Bagre dorado - Spanish Venezuela Click here to show the literature
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Classification:
Kingdom Animalia CoL
Phylum Chordata CoL
Class Actinopterygii FishBase
Order Siluriformes FishBase
Family Pimelodidae FishBase
Genus Brachyplatystoma FishBase
Distribution: South America: Amazon and Orinoco River basins and major rivers of French Guiana.
Lifezones: Freshwater
Additional data: -
Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 19-May-2014
Source database: FishBase, Jan 2015   99%
Bibliographic citation: Froese R. & Pauly D. (eds) (2025). FishBase (version Jan 2015). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2015 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Kunze T., Flann C., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., eds). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/col. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-8858.
Online resource: http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?ID=58421
CoL taxon LSID: urn:lsid:catalogueoflife.org:taxon:116d9895-ac8f-11e3-805d-020044200006:col20150401