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Related Catfish FAQs: Candiru Catfishes, Identification, Behavior, Compatibility, Selection, Systems, Feeding, Disease, Reproduction

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/A Diversity of Aquatic Life

The Only Vertebrate Parasites of Humans: Candiru Catfishes, Families Trichomycteridae & Cetopsidae

By Bob Fenner

A Whale Catfish, Cetopsid, in captivity

 

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Cetopsis coecutiens, (Lichtenstein 1819), Whale Catfish. To about ten inches in length. Here is an ever-active specimen in captivity. http://fishbase.org/Summary/species Summary.php?ID=48618&genusname= Cetopsis&speciesname=coecutiens

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