Rhinotocinclus

Rhinotocinclus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Family: Loricariidae
Subfamily: Hypoptopomatinae
Genus: Rhinotocinclus
Reis & Lehmann A., 2022
Type species
Rhinotocinclus longirostris
(Garavello, 1988)

Rhinotocinclus is a genus of armored catfishes native to South America. It was erected in July 2022, taking species from the genera Parotocinclus, Curculionichthys, and Hisonotus.[1]

Species

There are currently 23 recognized species in this genus:[2]

  • Rhinotocinclus acuen (Silva, Roxo & Oliveira, 2014)[3]
  • Rhinotocinclus bockmanni Carvalho & Datovo, 2012[4]
  • Rhinotocinclus britskii (Boeseman, 1974)
  • Rhinotocinclus chromodontus (Britski & Garavello, 2007)[5]
  • Rhinotocinclus collinsae (Schmidt & Ferraris, 1985)
  • Rhinotocinclus dani (Roxo, Silva & Oliveira, 2016)
  • Rhinotocinclus dinizae (Ribeiro-Silva, Silva, Venere, Pains da Silva & Roxo, 2020)
  • Rhinotocinclus discolor Reis & Lehmann A., 2022
  • Rhinotocinclus eppleyi (Schaefer & Provenzano, 1993)
  • Rhinotocinclus halbothi (Lehmann A., Lazzarotto & Reis, 2014)
  • Rhinotocinclus hardmani (Lehmann A., Lujan & Reis, 2022)
  • Rhinotocinclus hera (Gamarra, Calegari & Reis, 2019)
  • Rhinotocinclus isabelae Reis & Lehmann A., 2022
  • Rhinotocinclus jumaorum (Dias, Silva, Oliveira & Roxo, 2018)
  • Rhinotocinclus kwarup (Lehmann A. & Reis, 2021)
  • Rhinotocinclus longirostris (Garavello, 1988)
  • Rhinotocinclus loxochelis Reis & Lehmann A., 2022
  • Rhinotocinclus marginalis Reis & Lehmann A., 2022
  • Rhinotocinclus pentakelis (Roxo, Messias & Silva, 2019)
  • Rhinotocinclus pilosus Reis & Lehmann A., 2022
  • Rhinotocinclus polyochrus (Schaefer, 1988)
  • Rhinotocinclus variola (Lehmann A., Schvambach & Reis, 2015)
  • Rhinotocinclus yaka (Lehmann A., Lima & Reis, 2018)

References

  1. ^ Reis, Roberto; Lehmann A., Pablo. (2022). "A new genus of armored catfish (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Greater Amazon, with a review of the species and description of five new species". Neotropical Ichthyology. 20 (2) e220002. doi:10.1590/1982-0224-2022-0002. hdl:10923/25584.
  2. ^ Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Rhinotocinclus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 1 September 2025.
  3. ^ Silva, G.S.C.; Roxo, F.F.; Oliveira, C. (2014). "Hisonotus acuen, a new and phenotypically variable cascudinho (Siluriformes, Loricariidae, Hypoptopomatinae) from the upper rio Xingu basin, Brazil". ZooKeys (442): 105–125. Bibcode:2014ZooK..442..105D. doi:10.3897/zookeys.442.7870. PMC 4205499. PMID 25349492.
  4. ^ Carvalho, M.; Datovo, A. (2012). "A New Species of Cascudinho of the Genus Hisonotus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae: Hypoptopomatinae) from the Upper Rio Tapajós Basin, Brazil". Copeia. 2012 (2): 266–275. doi:10.1643/CI-11-016.
  5. ^ Britski, H.A.; Garavello, J.C. (2007). "Description of two new sympatric species of the genus Hisonotus Eigenmann and Eigenmann, 1889, from upper Rio Tapajós, Mato Grosso state, Brazil (Pisces: Ostariophysi: Loricariidae)". Brazilian Journal of Biology. 67 (3): 413–420. doi:10.1590/s1519-69842007000300005. PMID 18094823.