Cetopsidium roae

Cetopsidium roae is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Cetopsidae, the whale catfishes.^[2] This fish is found in the upper stream of the Essequibo region in south-western Guyana, in the Rupununi basin, and upper Takutu River on the frontier of Guyana and Brazil.^[1]

Cetopsidium roae
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Siluriformes
Family:	Cetopsidae
Genus:	Cetopsidium
Species:	C. roae
Binomial name
Cetopsidium roae Vari, Ferraris & de Pinna, 2005[2]