Platydoras

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{{Automatic taxobox

| 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 }}

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