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Neoplecostomus corumba

Neoplecostomus corumba

Classification

Neoplecostomus corumba 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 corumba was first formally described in 2012 by the ichthyologists Cláudio Henrique Zawadzki, Carla Simone Pavanelli and Francisco Langeani with its type locality given as the stream of Gameleira, a tributary of Corumbá River, in the Paranaíba basin at 17°59'S, 48°29'W, in the Municipality of Corumbaíba, in the Brazilian state of Goiás.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Brazil · 6