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Platystacus

Platystacus cotylephorus Bloch 1794

John P. Friel
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Containing group: Aspredinidae

Introduction

This genus has several times in its history been sunk in synonymy with Aspredo including most recently by Mees (1987). Friel (1994) found this genus to be the sister group to a clade containing Aspredo and Aspredinichthys and removed it from Aspredo to make that genus monophyletic.

Characteristics

Diagnosis

A genus of large banjo-catfish (up to 320 mm SL) distinguished from all other aspredinids by the following character: 4+5 caudal-fin rays. They are further distinguished from other members of the Aspredini by the absence of accessory maxillary barbels and the presence of well developed unculiferous tubercles rows.

Other Names for Platystacus cotylephorus Bloch 1794

References

Bloch, M. E. 1794. Naturgeschichte der auslndischen Fische. Berlin, 8: 1-174.

Friel, J. 1994. A phylogenetic study of the Neotropical banjo catfishes (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Aspredinidae) Ph.D. thesis, Duke University, Durham, NC, 256 pp.

Mees, G. F. 1987. The members of the subfamily Aspredininae, family Aspredinidae in Suriname (Pisces, Nematognathi). Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, 90(2): 173-192.

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Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates, Ithaca, New York, USA

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