Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective

Trichogenes

Genus of fishes From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Trichogenes
Remove ads

Trichogenes is a genus of pencil catfishes. It is currently the only genus within the subfamily Trichogeninae.

Quick facts Scientific classification, Type species ...

A third species, T. beagle, was described in 2020 from archival material of unknown origin. The occurrence of the new species in the wild is unknown.[2]

Remove ads

Etymology

The name Trichogenes is composed of the words 'Tricho', referring to its family, the Trichomycteridae, and 'genes', referring to the genus Helogenes due to its superficial resemblance to the latter.[1]

Distribution

Trichogenes species are endemic to Brazil.

Species

There are currently three recognized species in this genus:[3]

References

Loading related searches...

Wikiwand - on

Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.

Remove ads