Hatcheria macraei

Hatcheria macraei is a species of pencil catfish and the only species in its genus.^[1] This fish grows to about 20.8 centimetres (8.2 in) and originates from rivers east of the Andes in Argentina, between 29° and 45°30′S.^[2]

Hatcheria macraei
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Siluriformes
Family:	Trichomycteridae
Subfamily:	Trichomycterinae
Genus:	Hatcheria Eigenmann, 1909
Species:	H. macraei
Binomial name
Hatcheria macraei (Girard, 1855)
Synonyms
Thrichomycterus macraei Girard, 1855 Pygidium Burmeisteri Berg, 1895 Hatcheria patagoniensis Eigenmann, 1909 Hatcheria titcombi Eigenmann, 1918 Hatcheria pique MacDonagh, 1938

References

1. Ferraris, Carl J. Jr. (2007). "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1418: 1–628. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1418.1.1.
2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Hatcheria macraei". FishBase. February 2012 version.