Marine Species Traits - Pterygoplichthys Gill, 1858

Traits taxon details

Pterygoplichthys Gill, 1858

AphiaID

270654 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:270654)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Hypostominae Kner, 1853

Direct children (17)

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Species Pterygoplichthys ambrosettii (Holmberg, 1893)
Species Pterygoplichthys anisitsi Eigenmann & Kennedy, 1903
Species Pterygoplichthys disjunctivus (Weber, 1991)
Species Pterygoplichthys etentaculatus (Spix & Agassiz, 1829)
Species Pterygoplichthys gibbiceps (Kner, 1854)
Species Pterygoplichthys joselimaianus (Weber, 1991)
Species Pterygoplichthys lituratus (Kner, 1854)
Species Pterygoplichthys multiradiatus (Hancock, 1828)
Species Pterygoplichthys pardalis (Castelnau, 1855)
Species Pterygoplichthys parnaibae (Weber, 1991)
Species Pterygoplichthys punctatus (Kner, 1854)
Species Pterygoplichthys scrophus (Cope, 1874)
Species Pterygoplichthys undecimalis (Steindachner, 1878)
Species Pterygoplichthys weberi Armbruster & Page, 2006
Species Pterygoplichthys xinguensis (Weber, 1991)
Species Pterygoplichthys zuliaensis Weber, 1991
Species Pterygoplichthys punctatus Günther, 1864 accepted as Pterygoplichthys punctatus (Kner, 1854) (ambiguous synonym)

Environment

~~marine~~, ~~brackish~~, fresh, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2021). FishBase. Pterygoplichthys Gill, 1858. Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2021) Marine Species Traits at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=270654 on 2025-09-18

Thematic species database citation

Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025). Marine Species Traits. Pterygoplichthys Gill, 1858. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=270654 on 2025-09-18

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-01-15 10:18:16Z

created

Bailly, Nicolas

2014-11-21 13:09:37Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

[taxonomic tree]

taxonomy source Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To Catalog of Fishes
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Pterygoplichthys)
To Genbank
To Global Invasive Species Database (GISD)
To ITIS