Chaetostoma

Chaetostoma
Chaetostoma loborhynchos
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Family: Loricariidae
Subfamily: Hypostominae
Tribe: Ancistrini
Genus: Chaetostoma
Tschudi, 1846
Type species
Chaetostoma loborhynchos
Tschudi 1846
Synonyms

Lipopterichthys Norman, 1935
Loraxichthys Salcedo, 2013

Chaetostoma, also known as the bristlemouth catfish, 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

These are the currently recognized species in this genus:

Synonyms

References

  1. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Chaetostoma". 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. doi:10.1643/CI-14-194.
  4. ^ Urbano-Bonilla, A.; Ballen, G. A. (2020). "A new species of Chaetostoma (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Orinoco basin with comments on Amazonian species of the genus in Colombia". Journal of Fish Biology. 98 (4): 1091–1104. doi:10.1111/jfb.14640. PMID 33277920.
  5. ^ Ardila Rodríguez, C.A. (2013). "Chaetostoma floridablancaensis sp. nov. una nueva especie de Choque (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) del Municipio de Floridablanca, Departamento de Santander – Colombia". Barranquilla, Colombia: Universidad Metropolitana de Barranquilla – via ResearchGate.
  6. ^ 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. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4105.2.6. PMID 27394772.
  7. ^ Vanessa Meza-Vargas; Bárbara B. Calegari; Nathan K. Lujan; Gustavo A. Ballen; Osvaldo T. Oyakawa; Leandro M. Sousa; Lúcia Rapp Py-Daniel; Roberto E. Reis (29 June 2022). "A New Species of Chaetostoma (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) Expands the Distribution of Rubbernose Plecos Eastward into the Lower Amazon Basin of Brazil". Ichthyology & Herpetology. 110 (2): 364–377. doi:10.1643/i2021068. hdl:10923/25583.
  8. ^ 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.