Chaetostoma

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Chaetostoma
Chaetostoma Loborhynchos Tschudi top.jpg
Chaetostoma loborhynchos
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Family: Loricariidae
Tribe: Ancistrini
Genus: Chaetostoma
Tschudi, 1846
Type species
Chaetostoma loborhynchos
Tschudi 1846
Synonyms

Lipopterichthys Norman, 1935
Loraxichthys Salcedo, 2013

Chaetostoma also known as the Bristlemouths is a genus of suckermouth armored catfishes native to South America with one species C. fischeri extending into Panama.[1] Most species inhabit flowing rivers in the lower Andes and its foothills.[2] Some species are kept in unheated aquaria.

Species[]

Chaetostoma anomalum
Chaetostoma breve
Chaetostoma microps

There are currently 48 recognized species in this genus:

References[]

  1. ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2017). Species of Chaetostoma in FishBase. October 2017 version.
  2. ^ van der Sleen, P.; J.S. Albert, eds. (2017). Field Guide to the Fishes of the Amazon, Orinoco, and Guianas. Princeton University Press. pp. 270–271. ISBN 978-0691170749.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Lujan, N.K., Meza-Vargas, V., Astudillo-Clavijo, V., Barriga-Salazar, R. & López-Fernández, H. (2015): A Multilocus Molecular Phylogeny for Chaetostoma Clade Genera and Species with a Review of Chaetostoma (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Central Andes. Copeia, 103 (3): 664-701.
  4. ^ Ardila Rodríguez, C.A. (2013): Chaetostoma floridablancaensis sp. nov. una nueva especie de Choque (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) del Municipio de Floridablanca, Departamento de Santander – Colombia. Universidad Metropolitana de Barranquilla. Barranquilla, Colombia. 24pp.
  5. ^ a b Ballen, G.A., Urbano-Bonilla, A. & Maldonado-Ocampo, J.A. (2016): Description of a new species of the genus Chaetostoma from the Orinoco River drainage with comments on Chaetostoma milesi Fowler, 1941 (Siluriformes: Loricariidae). Zootaxa, 4105 (2): 181–197.
  6. ^ Salcedo, N.J. & Ortega, H. (2015). "A new species of Chaetostoma, an armored catfish (Siluriformes: Loricariidae), from the río Marañón drainage, Amazon basin, Peru" (PDF). Neotropical Ichthyology. 13 (1): 151–156. doi:10.1590/1982-0224-20140073.
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