Otocinclus batmani

Otocinclus batmani
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Siluriformes
Family:	Loricariidae
Genus:	Otocinclus
Species:	O. batmani
Binomial name
	Otocinclus batmani; , 2006

Otocinclus batmani is a species of armored catfish (Loricariidae) native to South America. It can grow up to 37 millimetres (1.5 in) (SL).^[1]

It is named for the comic-book hero Batman, who had a bat shape for a symbol,^[2] and has the pigmented mark on its caudal fin, which resembles Batman's chest symbol.^[3]

References[]

^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2014). "Otocinclus batmani" in FishBase. September 2014 version.
^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order SILURIFORMES: Family LORICARIIDAE: Subfamilies LITHOGENINAE, HYPOPTOPOMINAE and LORICARIINAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
^ Otocinclus batmani, a new species of hypoptopomatine catfish (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from Colombia and Peru, by Pablo Lehmann A., in Neotropical Ichthyology, vol.4 no.4 Porto Alegre Oct./Dec. 2006

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[1] Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2014). "Otocinclus batmani" in FishBase. September 2014 version.

[ETYFish-2] Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order SILURIFORMES: Family LORICARIIDAE: Subfamilies LITHOGENINAE, HYPOPTOPOMINAE and LORICARIINAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 22 February 2021.

[Neotropic-3] Otocinclus batmani, a new species of hypoptopomatine catfish (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from Colombia and Peru, by Pablo Lehmann A., in Neotropical Ichthyology, vol.4 no.4 Porto Alegre Oct./Dec. 2006

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