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| Scientific Name | Microglanis zonatus Eigenmann & Allen, 1942 |
| Common Name(s) | None |
| Type Locality | Río Morona, upper Amazon River system, Peru. |
| Etymology | Micro - small, glanis - catfish - in reference to the rather small forms of catfish that this genus contains. |
| Species Information | |
| Size | 20mm (0.8") SL. Find near, nearer or same sized spp. |
| Identification | The genus Microglanis was described by Eigenmann (1912) to include small pimelodids with the head as wide as long, the skull covered by skin only; the occipital crest small; frontal fontanel not extending much if any behind the eye, and a minute occipital fontanel sometimes present; eye without a free orbital margin; dorsal and pectoral spines well developed; and premaxillary patches of teeth without backward projecting angles. |
| Habitat Information | |
| Distribution | Upper Amazon River basin, Peru. |
| Further Information | |
| References | Fishes of western South America. I. The intercordilleran and Amazonian lowlands of Peru. II.- The high pampas of Peru, Bolivia, and northern Chile. With a revision of the Peruvian Gymnotidae, and of the genus Orestias. |
| Registered Keepers | None.  Add this species to your "my cats" page. |
| Breeding Reports | None. |
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| Last Update | 2011 Sep 20 04:50 (species record created: 2011 Sep 19 16:46) |
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