Pencil catfish

The Pencil catfish lives in the benthopelagic, freshwater environment.

Patagonian pencil catfish Hatcheria macrei for the PIRE Patagonia project. This trip is funded primarily through Brigham Young University, but is part of a larger project supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation. Participants Dr. More

pencil catfish family (Trichomycteridae), also engage in parasitic activities. Parasitic catfishes may be lepidophagous, targeting mucus, scales, and associated tissues (stegophyline trichomycterids), or hematophagous, swallowing blood (vandelliine trichomycterids). More

family (sometimes called pencil catfish) is strictly prohibited in the U.S. The marine equivalent of the candiru is the pearl fish. This little tropical fish gets its name from slipping into the partially open shells of living oysters for shelter. More

Common names

Babosa in Spanish (español)
Laucha in Spanish (español)
Pencil catfish in English
条纹毛鼻鲶 in Mandarin Chinese
條紋毛鼻鯰 in Mandarin Chinese
紋狹尻鯰 in Mandarin Chinese
纹狭尻鲶 in Mandarin Chinese

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