''Pimelodus argenteus'' is a fish in the family

Pimelodidae 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 ...

, which is distributed over the Paraguái and Lower and Middle

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basins, occurring in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay in

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. The name is preoccupied by ''Pimelodus argenteus'' , which is a synonym of the Pemecou sea catfish (''Sciades herzbergii'') but retained as valid under Article 23.9.5

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argenteus The ''argenteus'' ( ''argentei'', 'of silver') was a silver coin produced by the Roman Empire from the time of Diocletian's coinage reform in AD 294 to ca. AD 310. It was of similar weight and fineness to the denarius of the time of Nero. The coi ...

Catfish of Brazil Freshwater fish of Argentina Fish of Bolivia Fish of Paraguay Fish of Uruguay Taxa named by Alberto Perugia {{Pimelodidae-stub