''Bergiaria'' is a small
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
long-whiskered catfish
The Pimelodidae, commonly known as the long-whiskered catfishes, are a family of catfishes (order Siluriformes).
Taxonomy
The family Pimelodidae has undergone much revision. Currently, it contains about 30 genera and about 90 recognized and know ...
es native to
South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It can also be described as the southern Subregion#Americas, subregion o ...
.
Species
There are currently two recognized species in this genus:
* ''
Bergiaria platana''
(Steindachner
Franz Steindachner (11 November 1834 in Vienna – 10 December 1919 in Vienna) was an Austrian zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist. He published over 200 papers on fishes and over 50 papers on reptiles and amphibians. Steindachner descri ...
, 1908)
* ''
Bergiaria westermanni''
( Lütken, 1874)
References
Pimelodidae
Fish of South America
Catfish genera
Taxa named by Carl H. Eigenmann
Freshwater fish genera
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