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Ochmacanthus
Ochmacanthus is a genus of pencil catfishes native to South America. These species are distributed in South America. O. alternus and O. orinoco originate from the Rio Negro and Orinoco River basins of Brazil and Venezuela. O. batrachstoma inhabits the Paraguay River basin in Brazil. O. flabelliferus lives in river drainages in Guyana and Venezuela. O. reinhardtii is known from the Amazon River basin in Brazil and drainages in French Guyana.
5 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 5 known species
Ochmacanthus alternus
speciesOchmacanthus alternus
Ochmacanthus flabelliferus
speciesOchmacanthus flabelliferus
Ochmacanthus batrachostoma
speciesOchmacanthus batrachostoma
Ochmacanthus reinhardtii
speciesOchmacanthus reinhardtii
Ochmacanthus orinoco
speciesOchmacanthus orinoco
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 90393.