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This specimen was collected from Finca El Viento south of Matazul, Cano El Viento, Meta, Colombia by J. E. Bohlke et al. on 18 March 1973. It was made available to The University of Texas High-Resolution X-ray CT Facility for scanning by Dr. John Lundberg of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. Funding for scanning was provided by a National Science Foundation grant (DEB-0089612) to Dr. Lundberg. Funding for image processing was provided by an NSF Digital Libraries Initiative grant to Dr. Timothy Rowe of The University of Texas at Austin.

This specimen was scanned by Matthew Colbert on 15 May 2007 along the coronal axis for a total of 1118 slices. Each 1024x1024 pixel slice is 0.1155 mm thick, with an interslice spacing of 0.1155 mm and a field of reconstruction of 51 mm.

Literature

Vari, R. P. and C. J. Ferraris Jr. 2006. The catfish genus Tetranematichthys (Auchenipteridae). Copeia 2006:168-180.

Tetranematichthys wallacei page on Fishbase

Catfish Bones, the Digital Atlas of Catfish Morphology