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Apomatoceros
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Siluriformes
Family:	Trichomycteridae
Subfamily:	Stegophilinae
Genus:	Apomatoceros Eigenmann, 1922
Species:	A. alleni
Binomial name
Apomatoceros alleni Eigenmann, 1922

Apomatoceros is a genus of catfish (order Siluriformes) of the family Trichomycteridae, its sole representative species being Apomatoceros alleni. This fish grows to about 14.6 centimetres (5.7 in) SL and originates from the Amazon River. The specific name honours the collector of the type, zoologist William Ray Allen (1885–1955) of Indiana University.

References

1. Ferraris, Carl J. Jr. (2007). "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1418: 1–628.
2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Apomatoceros alleni". FishBase. July 2007 version.
3. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (18 December 2018). "Order SILURIFORMES: Families DIPLOMYSTIDAE, CETOPSIDAE, TRICHOMYCTERIDAE and NEMATOGENYIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 11 July 2019.

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• Trichomycteridae
• Monotypic freshwater fish genera
• Catfish genera
• Fish of the Amazon basin
• Pencil catfish of Brazil
• Freshwater fish of Peru
• Taxa named by Carl H. Eigenmann
• Trichomycteridae stubs