Curculionichthys sagarana
Appearance
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Siluriformes |
Family: | Loricariidae |
Genus: | Curculionichthys |
Species: | C. sagarana
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Binomial name | |
Curculionichthys sagarana Roxo, Silva, Ochoa & Oliveira, 2015
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Curculionichthys sagarana is a species of catfish in the family Loricariidae. It is native to South America, where it occurs in the drainage basins of the Das Velhas River and the São Francisco River. It reaches 2.4 cm (0.9 inches) SL.[1] The species was described in 2015 by Fábio Fernandes Roxo, Gabriel Souza da Costa e Silva, Luz E. Orrego, and Claudio Oliveira, alongside the description of the genus Curculionichthys to include several species formerly classified in the genus Hisonotus.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2021). "Curculionichthys sagarana". FishBase. Archived from the original on 2017-08-08.
- ^ Roxo FF, Silva GSC, Ochoa LA, Oliveira C (2015) Description of a new genus and three new species of Otothyrinae (Siluriformes, Loricariidae). ZooKeys 534: 103-134. doi:10.3897/zookeys.534.6169