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Pencil or parasitic catfishes are small fishes of the family Trichomycteridae (order Siluriformes), comprising about 42 genera and 178 species.
It includes three species, V. beccarii, V. cirrhosa, and V. sanguinea.Vandellia is the most well-known genus of parasitic catfishes also known as candiru, known for their alleged habit of entering the human urethra.
catfishes, sea catfishes, eeltail catfishes, squeakers, thorny catfishes, auchenipterid catfishes, long-whiskered catfishes, bottlenose catfishes, helogeneid catfishes, whalelike catfishes, loweye catfishes, banjo catfishes, parasitic catfishes, ...
 See also: Candiru, Catfish, Burro, Snipe, Piranha
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