Cetopsorhamdia picklei is a species of three-barbeled catfishes native to Maracaibo Lake basin, Venezuela. [1] This species reaches a length of 12.0 cm (4.7 in). [2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Heptapteridae |
| Genus: | Cetopsorhamdia |
| Species: | C. picklei
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| Binomial name | |
| Cetopsorhamdia picklei L. P. Schultz, 1944
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Etymology
editThe fish is named in honor of Chesley B. Pickle of the Lago Petroleum Corporation, who facilitated Schultz in the collection of fishes at the southern end of Lago Maracaibo, Venezuela [3]
References
edit- ^ Bockmann, F.A. and G.M. Guazzelli, 2003. Heptapteridae (Heptapterids). p. 406-431. In R.E. Reis, S.O. Kullander and C.J. Ferraris, Jr. (eds.) Checklist of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America. Porto Alegre: EDIPUCRS, Brasil.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Cetopsorhamdia picklei". FishBase. February 2015 version.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order SILURIFORMES: Families HEPTAPTERIDAE, PHREATOBIIDAE, PIMELODIDAE and PSEUDOPIMELODIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
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