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Phreatobiidae

Phreatobiidae Phreatobius has a long history of different taxonomic assignments. In the past they have been placed in seven different catfish families, in the "Parasitic Catfishes" (Trichomycteridae), the "Walking catfishes" (Clariidae) the Whale Catfishes (Cetopsidae), the eel and coral catfish (Plotosidae) the Olyridae, the "Pim cats" (Pimelodidae) and the Heptapteridae , to which Phreatobius belongs as a sister genus of Gladioglanis in most of today's classifications.

DNA comparisons show, however, that Phreatobius has been developing independently for a very long time and is the sister genus of a clade from the Pimelodidae and the Pseudopimelodidae. At the momemt (2021) there are three described species in this genera, P. cisternarum Goeldi, 1905, P. dracunculus Shibatta, Muriel-Cunha & De Pinna, 2007, and P. sanguijuela Fernández, Saucedo, Carvajal-Vallejos & Schaefer, 2007.

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Phreatobius cisternarum

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