Pimelodus

Taxobox
name = "Pimelodus"


regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Siluriformes
familia = Pimelodidae
genus = "Pimelodus"
genus_authority = La Cepède, 1803
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "P. absconditus"
"P. albicans"
"P. albofasciatus"
"P. altissimus"
"P. altobrunneus"
"P. blochii"
"P. brevis"
"P. britskii"
"P. coprophagus"
"P. fur"
"P. garciabarrigai"
"P. grosskopfii"
"P. halisodous"
"P. heraldoi"
"P. jivaro"
"P. joannis"
"P. maculatus"
"P. microstoma" [cite journal|url=http://www.ufrgs.br/ni/vol5num1/v5n1a10.pdf|title="Pimelodus microstoma" Steindachner, 1877, a valid species of pimelodid catfish (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae) from the upper rio Paraná drainage|first=Frank Raynner V.|last=Ribeiro|coauthors=Lucena, Carlos Alberto S. de|volume=5|issue=1|pages=75–78|year=2007|format=PDF|unused_data=|Neotropical Ichthyology]
"P. mysteriosus"
"P. navarroi"
"P. ornatus"
"P. ortmanni"
"P. pantaneiro"
"P. paranaensis"
"P. pictus"
"P. platicirris"
"P. pohli"cite journal|url=http://www.ufrgs.br/ni/vol4num4/NI4(4)-411-418lr.pdf|title=A new species of "Pimelodus" LaCépède, 1803 (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae) from the rio São Francisco drainage, Brazil|first=Frank Raynner V.|last=Ribeiro|coauthors=Lucena, Carlos Alberto S. de|journal=Neotropical Ichthyology|volume=4|issue=4|pages=411–418|year=2006|format=PDF|doi=10.1590/S1679-62252006000400004]
"P. punctatus"
"P. stewarti"
"P. tetramerus" [cite journal|url=http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S0073-47212006000300008&script=sci_abstract|last=Ribeiro|first=Frank Raynner V.|coauthors=Lucena, Carlos Alberto S. de|title=A new species of "Pimelodus" (Siluriformes, Pimelodidae) from Tapajós and Tocantins rivers, Brazil|journal=Iheringia, Sér. Zool.|date=September 2006|volume=96|issue=3|pages=321–327|id=ISSN 0073-4721]
synonyms =
*"Pseudariodes"
Bleeker, 1862
*"Pseudorhamdia"
Bleeker, 1862

"Pimelodus" is a genus of catfishes (order Siluriformes) of the family Pimelodidae.

"Pimelodus" is a non-monophyletic assemblage with about 24 species; it is defined by a set of non-derived characters. Species level taxonomy of "Pimelodus" is still poorly known as well as the phylogenetic relationships within and of the genus. The high number of species currently included in Pimelodus, allied to the wide variability in morphology and color pattern of those taxa, pose difficulties for a complete systematic revision of the genus.cite journal|title=Three new "Pimelodus" species (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae) from the rio Tocantins drainage, Brazil|first=Frank R.V.|last=Ribeiro|coauthors=Lucena, Carlos A. S.; Lucinda, Paulo H. F.|journal=Neotropical Ichthyology|volume=6|issue=3|pages=455-464|year=2008]

A core group within "Pimelodus" has been diagnozed that includes "P. maculatus", "P. blochii", "P. coprophagus", "P. grosskopfii", "P. jivaro", and "P. pictus".

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