Shorefishes - Gallery

Shorefishes of the Greater Caribbean online information system

Brachyplatystoma filamentosum, the Kumakuma

17-21 gill rakers

A base = D2 base
Brachyplatystoma vaillantii, Laulao catfish, the Piramutaba

25-31 gill rakers

A base > D2 base
eye low

D over A, spine feeble

adipose D small

Hypophthalmus edentatus, Highwaterman catfish

A long base
eye large, not low

D all before A, strong spine

adipose D ~= A

Pimelodus blochii, Bloch’s catfish

roof mouth: no teeth

A short base