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Brachyplatystoma juruense, the zebra catfish, is a species of catfish of the family Pimelodidae that is native to Amazon and Orinoco River basin of Peri and Rio Juruá, northwestern Brazil.[1][2]

Brachyplatystoma juruense
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Siluriformes
Family:	Pimelodidae
Genus:	Brachyplatystoma
Species:	B. juruense
Binomial name
Brachyplatystoma juruense (Boulenger, 1898)

It grows to a length of 60.0 cm.[1] The fish inhabits larger, deeper river channels with a sandy substrate with some large chunks of driftwood.[3]

Adult have broad dark vertical, oblique or branching bands. Ventrum is pale yellowish. Caudal fin blotched or barred. The juvenile form is sometimes confused with B. tigrinum.[3]

It is entirely piscivorous preying on loricariids and other bottom-dwelling fish.[3]

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