Platydoras
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| name = Platydoras
| image = Platydoras costatus 5 (Piotr Kuczynski).jpg
| image_caption = Platydoras armatulus
| taxon = Platydoras
| type_species = Silurus costatus
| type_species_authority = Linnaeus, 1758
| authority = Bleeker, 1862
}}
Platydoras is a small genus of thorny catfishes native to freshwater habitats in subtropical and tropical South America.{{FishBase genus | genus=Platydoras | month=July | year=2018 | access-date=25 July 2018}}
Species
There are currently five recognized species in this genus:{{cite journal| author1=Sousa, L.M. | author2=M.S. Chaves | author3=A. Akama | author4=J. Zuanon | author5=M.H. Sabaj | year=2018 | title=Platydoras birindellii, new species of striped raphael catfish (Siluriformes: Doradidae) from the Xingu Basin, Brazil | journal=Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia | volume=166 | issue=1 | pages=1–13 | doi=10.1635/053.166.0106 | s2cid=90673235 }}
- 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
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Category:Catfish of South America
Category:Taxa named by Pieter Bleeker
Category:Freshwater fish genera
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