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Ancistrus mullerae

Ancistrus mullerae

Classification

Ancistrus mullerae is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Loricariidae, the suckermouth armoured catfishes, and the subfamily Hypostominae, the suckermouth catfishes. This catfish is endemic to Brazil. Taxonomy Ancistrus mullerae was first formally described in 2009 by the Brazilian ichthyologists Alessandro Gasparetto Bifi, Carla Simone Pavanelli and Cláudio Henrique Zawadzki with its type locality given as Três Barras do Paraná on the Guaraní River, a tributary of the Iguaçu River, at 25°25'29"S, 53°07'30"W, in the Brazilian state of Paraná.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog