| Scleronema | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Trichomycteridae |
| Subfamily: | Trichomycterinae |
| Genus: | Scleronema C. H. Eigenmann, 1917 |
| Type species | |
| Scleronema operculatum C. H. Eigenmann, 1917
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Scleronema is a genus of pencil catfishes native to South America. They are a member of the subfamily Trichomycterinae.[1] Species of Scleronema are geographically distributed in the La Plata basin and Atlantic coastal drainages from Southern Brazil, Southern Paraguay, Northeastern Argentina and Uruguay. They inhabit rivers or streams with sand or gravel-bottoms across the Pampa grasslands.[2] In Greek, Scleronema means "hard filament."[3]
- ^ "Scleronema". ITIS. Retrieved 2017-01-23.
- ^ Ferrer, Juliano; Malabarba, Luiz R. (2020). "Systematic revision of the Neotropical catfish genus Scleronema (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae), with descriptions of six new species from Pampa grasslands". Neotropical Ichthyology. 18 (2): e190081. doi:10.1590/1982-0224-2019-0081. hdl:10183/248278.
- ^ "Scleronema angustirostre summary page". FishBase.us. Retrieved 2020-06-25.