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Neoplecostomus botucatu

Neoplecostomus botucatu

Classification

Neoplecostomus botucatu 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 botucatu 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 stream of Åguas de Madalena, a tributary of the Pardo River, in the Paranapanema basin at 22°59'25"S, 48°25'37"W, in the Municipality of Botucatu, in the Brazilian…

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Brazil · 2