Definition of Callichthyids. Meaning of Callichthyids. Synonyms of Callichthyids

- breathe air only under hypoxic conditions, callichthyids breathe air under all water conditions. Some callichthyids are able to absorb air through their hind...
- The species usually have more restricted areas of endemism than other callichthyids, but the area of distribution of the entire genus almost equals the...
- by bony plates covering their bodies, similar to the bony plates in callichthyids. (In Latin, lorica means corselet). These fish exhibit a ventral suckermouth...
-   Extinct in the wild (EW): 6 species   Critically endangered (CR): 455 species   Endangered (EN): 643 species   Vulnerable (VU): 1,245 species   Near...
-   Extinct in the wild (EW): 6 species   Critically endangered (CR): 455 species   Endangered (EN): 643 species   Vulnerable (VU): 1,245 species   Near...
- reproductive period. H. littorale has the widest distribution of any callichthyid. It is present in all of South America east of the Andes and north of...
- a member of the subfamily, Corydoradinae, and demonstrates that the callichthyids had already diverging or diversifying before the end of the Paleocene...
- Corydoras microcephalus is a species of callichthyid armored catfish native to Argentina. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Corydoras microcephalus"...
- 2004 The genus Callichthys can be readily distinguished from other callichthyids by having the coracoids covered by skin and not exposed ventrally, the...
- the habit of swimming midwater, as opposed to the bottom as in most callichthyids. There are currently two described species in this genus: Dianema longibarbis...