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Bunocephalus aleuropsis Cope, 1870

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Cope, E. D. (1870). Contribution to the ichthyology of the Marañon. <em>Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society.</em> v. 11: 559-570.

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
order
Siluriformes
family
Aspredinidae
genus
Bunocephalus
species
Bunocephalus aleuropsis

Name

Synonyms
Bunocephalus melas Cope, 1874
Dysichthys aleuropsis (Cope, 1870)
Homonyms
Bunocephalus aleuropsis Cope, 1870
Common names
Bagre-banjo-do-Orinoco in Portuguese
Banjo in Portuguese
Orinoco Banjo in English
širokohlavec orinocký in Czech
Banjo in Portuguese

Bibliographic References

  1. Cardoso, A.R. 2008. Filogenia da família Aspredinidae Adams, 1854 e revisão taxonômica de Bunocephalinae Eigenmann y Eigenmann, 1888 (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Aspredinidae). Unpublished Tese de Doutorado, Porto Alegre, Brasil: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul.
  2. Cope, E. D. (1870). Contribution to the ichthyology of the Marañon. <em>Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society.</em> v. 11: 559-570.
  3. Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025).
  4. 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
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