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GBIF·2340631speciesAnimalia32 occurrence records
  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderSiluriformes
  4. ›familyAspredinidae
  5. ›genusBunocephalus
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IUCN LC · Least concern

Banjo catfish

Bunocephalus knerii Steindachner, 1882

Also calledBagre-banjo-de-Kner (por) · Banjomal (swe) · Carachita (spa) · Laubwels (deu) · Marmoribanjomonni (fin) · širokohlavec Knerův (ces)

First described in: Steindachner, F. (1882). Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Flussfische Südamerika's (IV). <em>Anzeiger der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Klasse.</em> v. 19 (no. 19): 175-180.

This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.

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Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

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Every page naming Bunocephalus knerii in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2340631.