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Scientific Name	**Tympanopleura cf. piperatus**
Common Name
Etymology	Transliterated from the Greek tympanon, meaning drum, and pleura, meaning side or rib (pleuron), nouns in apposition, in reference to the pseudotympanum.
Species Information
Identification	Both Tympanopleura and Ageneiosus do not have obvious, permanent barbles. The two genera can be externally distinguished in that Tympanopleura has a prominent pseudotympanum consisting of an area on the side of the body devoid of epaxial musculature where the gas bladder contacts the internal coelomic wall; are shorter, blunter headed without greatly elongated jaws; and have a smaller adult body size.
Habitat Information
Husbandry Information
Breeding	Unreported.
Breeding Reports	There is no breeding report.
Further Information
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Last Update	2015 Apr 29 13:34 (species record created: 2007 Sep 29 12:45)