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Pimelodidae
Pito gordo
Pseudoplatystoma tigrinum
Nocturnal and migrates with prey
- Tropical
- Southern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- South America
- Elongated
- Large
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Elongated
LargePito gordo is a freshwater fish of South America. The species occupies freshwater habitats. Records give a maximum length of 130 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Catfishes
- Family
- Pimelodidae
- Genus
- Pseudoplatystoma
- Maximum length
- 130 cm
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- South America: Amazon and Orinoco River basins.
Class
Family
