Diplomystidae
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Diplomystidae, the velvet catfishes, are a family of primitive catfishes endemic to freshwater habitats in Argentina and Chile in southern South America. It currently contains six species in two genera.
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Diplomystidae | |
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Diplomystes nahuelbutaensis | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Siluriformes |
Suborder: | Diplomystoidei Grande, 1987 |
Family: | Diplomystidae C. H. Eigenmann, 1890 |
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The earliest known fossils of diplomystids are indeterminate pectoral spines from the Campanian and Maastrichtian of Argentina and Bolivia.[1]