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Micromyzon

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Genus of fishes

Micromyzon
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Siluriformes
Family:	Aspredinidae
Subfamily:	Hoplomyzontinae
Genus:	Micromyzon Friel & Lundberg, 1996

Micromyzon is a genus of tiny catfish in the family Aspredinidae native to relatively deep parts of the Amazon and Orinoco basins in South America.

Species

There are currently 2 recognized species in this genus:

Micromyzon akamai Friel & Lundberg, 1996
Micromyzon orinoco T. P Carvalho, Lundberg, Baskin, Friel & R. E. dos Reis, 2016

References

Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Micromyzon". FishBase. May 2017 version.
^ Carvalho, T.P., Lundberg, J.G., Baskin, J.N., Friel, J.P. & Reis, R.E. (2016): A new species of the blind and miniature genus Micromyzon Friel and Lundberg, 1996 (Silurifomes: Aspredinidae) from the Orinoco River: describing catfish diversity using high-resolution computed tomography. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 165 (1): 37-53.

Taxon identifiers
Micromyzon	Wikidata: Q18691907 Wikispecies: Micromyzon BOLD: 151612 CoL: 5S3G EoL: 71372 GBIF: 2340519 iNaturalist: 89939 IRMNG: 1293116 ITIS: 679479 NCBI: 390448 Open Tree of Life: 113060 WoRMS: 269866

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