Misplaced Pages

Megalocentor echthrus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Siluriformes
Family:	Trichomycteridae
Subfamily:	Stegophilinae
Genus:	Megalocentor de Pinna & Britski, 1991
Species:	M. echthrus
Binomial name
Megalocentor echthrus de Pinna & Britski, 1991

Megalocentor echthrus is a species of catfish (order Siluriformes) of the family Trichomycteridae, and the only species of the genus Megalocentor. This fish grows to about 8.8 centimetres (3.5 in) SL and originates from the Amazon and Orinoco basins.

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.). "Megalocentor echthrus". FishBase. February 2012 version.

• v
• t
• e

• Trichomycteridae
• Fish described in 1991
• Fish of Bolivia
• Pencil catfish of Brazil
• Freshwater fish of Peru
• Freshwater fish of Venezuela
• Fish of the Amazon basin
• Monotypic fish genera
• Trichomycteridae stubs