Chaetostoma
| Chaetostoma | |
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| Chaetostoma loborhynchos | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Loricariidae |
| Subfamily: | Hypostominae |
| Genus: | Chaetostoma Tschudi, 1846[1] |
| Type species | |
| Chaetostoma loborhynchos Tschudi 1846[1]
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Chaetostoma, also known as the bristlemouth catfish, is a genus of is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Loricariidae, the suckermouth armoured catfishes, and the subfamily Hypostominae, the suckermouth catfishes.[1] The catfishes in this genus are found in South America with one species, C. fischeri, extending into Panama.[2] Most species inhabit flowing rivers in the lower Andes and its foothills.[3] Some species are kept in unheated aquaria.
Species
Chaetostoma contains the following valid species:[4]
- Chaetostoma aburrense (Posada, 1909)
- Chaetostoma anale (Fowler, 1943)
- Chaetostoma anomalum Regan, 1903
- Chaetostoma bifurcum Lujan, Meza-Vargas, Astudillo-Clavijo, Barriga Salazar & López-Fernández, 2015
- Chaetostoma branickii Steindachner, 1881
- Chaetostoma brevilabiatum Dahl, 1941
- Chaetostoma carrioni (Norman, 1935)
- Chaetostoma changae Salcedo, 2006
- Chaetostoma chimu Urbano-Bonilla & Ballen, 2021
- Chaetostoma daidalmatos Salcedo, 2006
- Chaetostoma dermorhynchus Boulenger, 1887
- Chaetostoma dorsale C. H. Eigenmann, 1922
- Chaetostoma dupouii Fernández-Yépez, 1945
- Chaetostoma fischeri Steindachner, 1879
- Chaetostoma floridablancaense Ardila Rodríguez, 2013
- Chaetostoma formosae Ballen, 2011
- Chaetostoma guairense Steindachner, 1881
- Chaetostoma joropo Ballen, Urbano-Bonilla & Maldonado-Ocampo, 2016
- Chaetostoma lepturum Regan, 1912
- Chaetostoma leucomelas C. H. Eigenmann, 1918
- Chaetostoma lexa (Salcedo, 2013)
- Chaetostoma lineopunctatum C. H. Eigenmann & Allen, 1942
- Chaetostoma loborhynchos Tschudi, 1846
- Chaetostoma machiquense Fernández-Yépez & Martín Salazar, 1953
- Chaetostoma marginatum Regan, 1904
- Chaetostoma marmorescens C. H. Eigenmann & Allen, 1942
- Chaetostoma microps Günther, 1864
- Chaetostoma milesi Fowler, 1941
- Chaetostoma niveum Fowler, 1944
- Chaetostoma nudirostre Lütken, 1874
- Chaetostoma orientale Meza-Vargas, Calegari, Lujan, Ballen, Oyakawa, Sousa, Rapp Py-Daniel & Reis, 2022
- Chaetostoma palmeri Regan, 1912
- Chaetostoma patiae Fowler, 1945
- Chaetostoma paucispinis Regan, 1912
- Chaetostoma pearsei C. H. Eigenmann, 1920
- Chaetostoma platyrhynchus (Fowler, 1943)
- Chaetostoma sacramento Meza-Vargas, Ramirez & Lujan, 2024
- Chaetostoma sovichthys Schultz, 1944
- Chaetostoma spondylus Salcedo & Ortega, 2015
- Chaetostoma stannii Lütken, 1874
- Chaetostoma stroumpoulos Salcedo, 2006
- Chaetostoma tachiraense Schultz, 1944
- Chaetostoma thomsoni Regan, 1904
- Chaetostoma trimaculineum Lujan, Meza-Vargas, Astudillo-Clavijo, Barriga Salazar & López-Fernández 2015
- Chaetostoma vasquezi Lasso & Provenzano, 1998
- Chaetostoma venezuelae (Schultz, 1944)
- Chaetostoma yurubiense Ceas & Page, 1996
References
- ^ a b c d Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Hypostominae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 18 June 2026.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Chaetostoma". FishBase. October 2017 version.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Chaetostoma". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 18 June 2026.