Platydoras

Platydoras
Platydoras armatulus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Siluriformes
Family:	Doradidae
Subfamily:	Platydorinae
Genus:	Platydoras Bleeker, 1862
Type species
Silurus costatus Linnaeus, 1758

Platydoras is a small genus of thorny catfishes native to freshwater habitats in subtropical and tropical South America.[1]

Species

There are currently five recognized species in this genus:[1][2]

• Platydoras armatulus (Valenciennes, 1840) (Southern striped raphael)
• Platydoras brachylecis Piorski, Garavello, Arce H. & Sabaj Pérez, 2008
• Platydoras birindellii Sousa et al., 2018
• Platydoras costatus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Raphael catfish)
• Platydoras hancockii (Valenciennes, 1840)

References

1. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Platydoras". FishBase. July 2018 version. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
2. Sousa, L.M.; M.S. Chaves; A. Akama; J. Zuanon; M.H. Sabaj (2018). "Platydoras birindellii, new species of striped raphael catfish (Siluriformes: Doradidae) from the Xingu Basin, Brazil". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 166 (1): 1–13. doi:10.1635/053.166.0106. S2CID 90673235.