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Medusa pleco

Ancistrus ranunculus

Classification

Ancistrus ranunculus 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 found in Colombia and Venezuela. Taxonomy Ancistrus ranunculus was first formally described in 2016 by the ichthyologists Sonia Fisch-Muller, who is Swiss, Alexandre Rodrigues Cardoso, José Francisco Pezzi da Silva and Vinicius de Araújo Bertaco, who are Brazilian, with its type locality given as the Xingu River at furo do Tucum Seco, near Arroz Cru, in the Brazilian state of…

Distribution

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