This is a test site. The production site with full data is available at GBIF.org
{{nav.loginGreeting}}
  • Get data
      • Occurrences
      • GBIF API
      • Species
      • Datasets
      • Occurrence snapshots
      • Hosted portals
      • Trends
  • How-to
    • Share data

      • Quick-start guide
      • Dataset classes
      • Data hosting
      • Standards
      • Become a publisher
      • Data quality
      • Data papers
    • Use data

      • Featured data use
      • Citation guidelines
      • GBIF citations
      • Citation widget
      • Guides and documentation
  • Tools
    • Publishing

      • IPT
      • Data validator
      • GeoPick
      • New data model
      • GRSciColl
      • Suggest a dataset
      • Metabarcoding data toolkit
    • Data access and use

      • Hosted portals
      • Scientific collections
      • Data processing
      • Derived datasets
      • rgbif
      • pygbif
      • SQL downloads
      • Tools catalogue
    • GBIF labs

      • Species matching
      • Name parser
      • Sequence ID
      • Relative observation trends
      • GBIF data blog
  • Community
    • Network

      • Participant network
      • Nodes
      • Publishers
      • Network contacts
      • Community forum
      • alliance for biodiversity knowledge
    • Volunteers

      • Mentors
      • Ambassadors
      • Translators
      • Citizen scientists
    • Activities

      • Capacity development
      • Programmes & projects
      • Training and learning resources
      • Data Use Club
      • Living Atlases
  • About
    • Inside GBIF

      • What is GBIF?
      • Become a member
      • Governance
      • Strategic framework
      • Work Programme
      • Funders
      • Partnerships
      • Release notes
      • Contacts
    • News & outreach

      • News
      • Subscribe
      • Events
      • Awards
      • Science Review
      • Data use
      • Thematic communities
  • User profile

Brachyplatystoma platynemum Boulenger, 1898

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Boulenger, G. A. (1898). Descriptions of two new siluroid fishes from Brazil. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 7).</em> v. 2 (no. 12) (art. 58): 477-478.

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
order
Siluriformes
family
Pimelodidae
genus
Brachyplatystoma
species
Brachyplatystoma platynemum

Name

Synonyms
Goslinia platynema (Boulenger, 1898)
Taenionema steerei Eigenmann & Bean, 1907
Homonyms
Brachyplatystoma platynemum Boulenger, 1898
Common names
Slobbering Catfish in English
Baboso in Portuguese
Baboso in Spanish
Babão in Portuguese

Bibliographic References

  1. Boulenger, G. A. (1898). Descriptions of two new siluroid fishes from Brazil. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 7).</em> v. 2 (no. 12) (art. 58): 477-478.
  2. Boulenger, G. A. (1898). Descriptions of two new siluroid fishes from Brazil. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 7).</em> v. 2 (no. 12) (art. 58): 477-478.
  3. Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025).
  4. Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025).
  5. Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). 10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4
  6. Maldonado-Ocampo, J. A., R. P. Vari y J. S. Usma. (2008). Checklist of the freshwater fishes of Colombia. Biota Colombiana 9 (2): 143-237.
  7. Ramírez-Gil, H., R.E. Ajiaco-Martínez, C. Bonilla-Castillo, E. Agudelo-Cordoba & C.A. Lasso. Brachyplatystoma platynemum. pp. 89-91. En: Mojica, J. I., J. S. Usma, R. Álvarez-León & C.A. Lasso (Eds). 2012. Libro rojo de peces dulceacuícolas de Colombia 2012. Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, Instituto de Ciencias Naturales de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, WWF Colombia, Universidad de Manizales Bogotá, D.C. Colombia. 319 pp.
What is GBIF? API FAQ Newsletter Privacy Terms and agreements How to cite? Code of Conduct Acknowledgements
Contact GBIF Secretariat Universitetsparken 15 DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø Denmark
GBIF is a Global Core Biodata Resource