Definition of Callichthyid. Meaning of Callichthyid. Synonyms of Callichthyid

- breathe air only under hypoxic conditions, callichthyids breathe air under all water conditions. Some callichthyids are able to absorb air through their hind...
- Bl****er, 1858 (pencil catfishes) Family Callichthyidae Bonaparte, 1835 (callichthyid armored catfishes) Family Loricariidae Rafinesque, 1815 (suckermouth...
- The species usually have more restricted areas of endemism than other callichthyids, but the area of distribution of the entire genus almost equals the...
-   Extinct in the wild (EW): 6 species   Critically endangered (CR): 455 species   Endangered (EN): 643 species   Vulnerable (VU): 1,245 species   Near...
- reproductive period. H. littorale has the widest distribution of any callichthyid. It is present in all of South America east of the Andes and north of...
- by bony plates covering their bodies, similar to the bony plates in callichthyids. (In Latin, lorica means corselet). These fish exhibit a ventral suckermouth...
-   Extinct in the wild (EW): 6 species   Critically endangered (CR): 455 species   Endangered (EN): 643 species   Vulnerable (VU): 1,245 species   Near...
- Corydoras revelatus is an extinct species of callichthyid catfish known from a single specimen found in Late Paleocene strata of the Mais Gordo Formation...
- scutes can be seen upon close examination of this and almost all other Callichthyid fishes, and in the case of some specimens of this species, are highlighted...
- the habit of swimming midwater, as opposed to the bottom as in most callichthyids. There are currently two described species in this genus: Dianema longibarbis...