Pencil Catfish
Trichomycterus roigi Arratia & Menu-Marque, 1984
Also calledBagre de Montaña (spa)
First described in: Arratia, G.; Menu-Marque, S. (1984). New catfishes of the genus Trichomycterus from the high Andes of South America (Pisces, Siluriformes) with remarks on distribution and ecology. <em>Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie.</em> 111 (4): 493-520.
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”.
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Trichomycterus roigi in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2343066.