Rod & reel Documented IGFA listed
catfishes 10-50 kg
Brachyplatystoma vaillantii
Laulao Catfish
Native range continent: South America
Brachyplatystoma vaillantii is listed in the freshwater record catalogue (catfishes 10-50 kg).
Record claims
Within the current result set, documented rod-and-reel weights are preferred, then documented unknown-method weights, then other methods, then found-dead. Length is used only when no weight exists; age only when neither weight nor length exists. Questionable claims appear only if nothing documented remains. Ties prefer the larger value, then exact over approximate/over, then the newer year.
Rod & reel Documented
Weight not recorded · 70 cm
Method unknown Documented
Weight not recorded
Age record: verified.
Other methods Documented
20 kg
Other methods Documented
+ 8 kg · ~ 80 cm
Weight and length are not asserted as the same specimen.
Catch photographs
Other methods Documented
Weight not recorded · 150 cm
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