Granulated catfish

Amazing fact

The granulated catfish eats palm fruits and is thought to help spread seeds in flooded forests.

U.S. Geological Survey

Granulated catfish in its habitat (illustration)

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The granulated catfish eats palm fruits and is thought to help spread seeds in flooded forests.

SourceU.S. Geological Survey — granulated catfish (Pterodoras granulosus) - Species Profile

THE REAL WORLD

The real Granulated catfish

Scientific name: Pterodoras granulosus
Japanese name: ボドワード
Group: Freshwater animals

Order: Siluriformes
Family: Doradidae
Genus: Pterodoras

Facts about the real animal.

It lives in the Amazon and Paraguay river systems.

鳥羽水族館 — ボドワード

It is a large kind, on a par with Oxydoras.

鳥羽水族館 — ボドワード

Its skin is like a file and feels rough.

鳥羽水族館 — ボドワード

How the Granulated catfish lives

It eats threadlike algae, land plants, animals without backbones and fish. In the rainy season, it moves from large rivers and reservoirs into shallow flooded areas to spawn.

U.S. Geological Survey

Basic data

Range: Amazon and Paraguay river basins

鳥羽水族館

Where the Granulated catfish has been recorded

Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF

Where it livesCentral and South America Rivers and wetlands

Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.

Names around the world

日本語: ボドワード
简体中文: 颗粒翼陶乐鲶
繁體中文: 顆粒翼陶樂鯰
Español: Armado común
Português (Brasil): Abotoado

Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.

Sources and how we check

鳥羽水族館 — ボドワードChecked: 2026-11-04
U.S. Geological Survey — granulated catfish (Pterodoras granulosus) - Species ProfileChecked: 2026-11-07

We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.

The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.

The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.

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