Platyclarias machadoi
| Platyclarias machadoi | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Clariidae |
| Genus: | Platyclarias Poll, 1977 |
| Species: | P. machadoi
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| Binomial name | |
| Platyclarias machadoi Poll, 1977
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Platyclarias machadoi is the only species in the genus Platyclarias of catfishes (order Siluriformes) of the family Clariidae.[2] It originates from the upper Cuango River in Angola.[2] It reaches up to 20.1 centimetres (7.9 in) TL.[3] P. machadoi is easily identified among the clariids due to its extremely flattened head relative to other clariids.[4] Platyclarias was only known from a single collection of 22 specimens in 1967 until the early 2000s when two additional specimens were collected from the Kwanza River.[5]
References
- ^ Moelants, T. (2010). "Platyclarias machadoi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010 e.T181824A7743417. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T181824A7743417.en. Retrieved 7 November 2025.
- ^ a b Ferraris, Carl J. Jr. (2007). "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1418: 1–628. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1418.1.1.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Platyclarias machadoi". FishBase. December 2011 version.
- ^ Devaere, Stijn; Adriaens, Dominique; Teugels, Guy G.; Verraes, Walter (2006). "Morphology of the cranial system of Platyclarias machadoi: interdependencies of skull flattening and suspensorial structure in Clariidae". Zoomorphology. 125 (2): 69–85. doi:10.1007/s00435-005-0012-7.
- ^ Bernt, M. J.; da Silva Neto, D.; Swartz, E. R.; Stiassny, M. L. (2023). "Rediscovery and range extension for Platyclarias machadoi Poll, 1977 (Siluriformes, Clariidae) in the Kwanza River, Angola". Check List. 19 (4): 541. doi:10.15560/19.4.541.