Microglanis zonatus • Pseudopimelodidae • Cat-eLog

Cat-eLog Data Sheet
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. Amazon, Upper Amazon (click on these areas to find other species found there) (Click the map-icon to show/hide map of species distribution)
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.
Breeding Reports	None.
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Last Update	2011 Sep 20 04:50 (species record created: 2011 Sep 19 16:46)

Cat-eLog Data Sheet

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.
Amazon, Upper Amazon (click on these areas to find other species found there)

(Click the map-icon to show/hide map of species distribution)

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.

Breeding Reports

None.