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  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderSiluriformes
  4. ›familyTrichomycteridae
  5. ›genusVandellia
Vandellia cirrhosa
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IUCN LC · Least concern

toothpick fish

Vandellia cirrhosa Valenciennes, 1846

Also calledAlmindelig snyltemalle (dan) · Candiru (por) · Candiru de cavalo (por) · Candirù (ita) · Candirú (spa) · Canero (spa) · Kandiru (est) · Loismonni (fin) · Wandelia a. kandyra (pol) · peixe-vampiro (por) · vandélie obecná (ces) · ванделлия (rus) · кандиру (rus) · сомик -кандиру (rus)

First described in: Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. (1846). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome dix-huitième. Suite du livre dix-huitième. Cyprinoïdes. Livre dix-neuvième. Des Ésoces ou Lucioïdes. v. 18: i-xix + 2 pp. + 1-505 + 2 pp., Pls. 520-553.

This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5202897.