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Plectrochilus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Siluriformes
Family:	Trichomycteridae
Subfamily:	Vandelliinae
Genus:	Plectrochilus Miranda-Ribeiro, 1917
Type species
Plectrochilus machadoi Miranda Ribeiro, 1917

Plectrochilus is a genus of pencil catfishes native to South America.

Species

There are currently three recognized species in this genus:

• Plectrochilus diabolicus (Myers, 1927)
• Plectrochilus machadoi (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1917)
• Plectrochilus wieneri (Pellegrin, 1909)

P. diabolicus and P. machadoi are found in the Amazon River basin in Brazil and Peru, while P. wieneri is found in the Napo River basin of Ecuador.

P. diabolicus grows to 4.8 centimetres (1.9 in) SL. P. machadoi grows to 9.3 cm (3.7 in).

Specimens of P. machadoi have been found partially buried in the belly of a specimen of Pseudoplatystoma where it apparently had burrowed through the body wall.

References

1. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Plectrochilus". FishBase. February 2012 version.
2. 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.
3. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Plectrochilus diabolicus". FishBase. July 2007 version.
4. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Plectrochilus machadoi". FishBase. July 2007 version.

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