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Neoplecostomus bandeirante

Neoplecostomus bandeirante

Classification

Neoplecostomus bandeirante is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Loricariidae, the suckermouth armoured catfishes, and the subfamily Hypoptopomatinae, the cascudinhos. This catfish is endemic to Brazil. Taxonomy Neoplecostomus bandeirante was first formally described in 2012 by the ichthyologists Fábio Fernandes Roxo, Claudio de Oliveira and Cláudio Henrique Zawadzki with its type locality given as the Paraitinga River, Tietê River basin, at 23°31'25"S, 43°53'22"W, in the municipality of Salesópolis in the Brazilian state of São Paulo.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Brazil · 1