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Malacoglanis gelatinosus
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Siluriformes
Family:	Trichomycteridae
Subfamily:	Sarcoglanidinae
Genus:	Malacoglanis Myers & Weitzman, 1966
Species:	M. gelatinosus
Binomial name
Malacoglanis gelatinosus Myers & Weitzman, 1966

Malacoglanis gelatinosus is a species of catfish (order Siluriformes) of the family Trichomycteridae, and the only species of the genus Malacoglanis. This fish grows to about 2.0 centimetres (.79 in) SL. and is native to the Caquetá River basin of Colombia. Stauroglanis is the sister group to a monophyletic group formed by Malacoglanis and Sarcoglanis.

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. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1418.1.1.
2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Malacoglanis gelatinosus". FishBase. July 2007 version.
3. de Pinna, Mario C. C. (August 9, 1989). "A New Sarcoglanidine Catfish, Phylogeny of Its Subfamily, and an Appraisal of the Phyletic Status of the Trichomycterinae (Teleostei, Trichomycteridae)" (PDF). American Museum Novitates (2950): 1–39.

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• IUCN Red List least concern species
• Trichomycteridae
• Taxa named by George S. Myers
• Taxa named by Stanley Howard Weitzman
• Catfish of South America
• Freshwater fish of Colombia
• Endemic fauna of Colombia
• Fish described in 1966
• Trichomycteridae stubs