''Doras'' is a
genus
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of
thorny catfishes native to
tropical
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the Southern Hemisphere at S. The tropics are also referred to ...
South America
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.
Species
There are currently five recognized species in this genus (three species - ''D. eigenmanni'', ''D. fimbriatus'' and ''D. punctatus'' have recently been moved to the new genus ''
Ossancora''):
[Birindelli, J.L.O. & Sabaj Pérez, M. (2011): "''Ossancora'', new genus of thorny catfish (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Doradidae) with description of one new species". ''Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia'', 161: 117-152.]
* ''
Doras carinatus''
(Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, t ...
, 1766)
* ''
Doras higuchii''
Sabaj Pérez & Birindelli, 2008
* ''
Doras micropoeus''
( C. H. Eigenmann, 1912)
* ''
Doras phlyzakion''
Sabaj Pérez & Birindelli, 2008
* ''
Doras zuanoni''
Sabaj Pérez & Birindelli, 2008
Fossil species
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†
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''
Doras dioneae''
Sabaj Pérez, Aguilera & Lundberg, 2007 (
Miocene
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)
References
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Doradidae
Fish of South America
Fish of the Amazon basin
Catfish genera
Taxa named by Bernard Germain de Lacépède
Freshwater fish genera
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