.CATFISH BONES
.About Catfish Bones
..List of Contributors
..Terms of Use
..Catfish Bones Policies
..Acknowledgements
..For Contributors
.Links
..Digimorph
..Tree of Life
..ACSI
.Catfish Families
.."Ailiines"
..Akysidae
..Amblycipitidae
..Amphiliidae
..Anchariidae
..Ariidae
..Aspredinidae
..Astroblepidae
..Auchenipteridae
..Auchenoglaninae
..Austroglanididae
..Bagridae
..Callichthyidae
..Cetopsidae
..Chacidae
..Clariidae
..Claroteinae
..Conorhynchos
..Cranoglanididae
..Diplomystidae
..Doradidae
..Erethistidae
..Heptapteridae
..Heteropneustidae
..Horabagridae
..Hypsidoridae
..Ictaluridae
..Lacantuniidae
..Loricariidae
..Malapteruridae
..Mochokidae
..Nematogenyidae
..Pangasiidae
..Pimelodidae
..Plotosidae
..Pseudopimelodidae
.."Ritines"
..Schilbidae
..Scoloplacidae
..Siluridae
..Sisoridae
..Trichomycteridae
Micromyzon akamai
List of Abreviations
.Original Description:
.Friel, J. P. and J. G. Lundberg   1996 (1 Aug.)  [ref. 22226]
...Micromyzon akamai, gen. et sp. nov., a small and eyeless banjo catfish (Siluriformes: Aspredinidae) from ...the River Channels of the lower Amazon basin. Copeia 1996 (no. 3): 641-648.
A new genus and species of aspredinid catfish, Micromyzon akamai, is described from trawl collections made in river channels of the Brazilian Amazon. This taxon is uniquely diagnosed by several apomorphies including lack of eyes, reduced melanic pigmentation, extremely reduced premaxillae and hypertrophied development of skull roofing elements and body armor. Its sister-group relationship to a clade containing Dupouyichthys and Ernstichthys is supported by the lack of lower jaw dentition, well-developed dorsal armor plates, and an anterior shift in the origin of the anal fin.

exerpt from: Friel, J. P. and J. G. Lundberg   1996 (1 Aug.)  [ref. 22226] Micromyzon akamai, gen. et sp. nov., a small and eyeless banjo catfish (Siluriformes: Aspredinidae) from ...the River Channels of the lower Amazon basin. Copeia 1996 (no. 3): 641-648.
Micromyzon akamai CCF.96.57(1 of 8)
Photo by Kyle Luckenbill
Micromyzon akamai CCF.96.57(2 of 8) CS
Photo by Kyle Luckenbill