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Neoplecostomus doceensis

Neoplecostomus doceensis

Classification

Neoplecostomus doceensis 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 doceensis was first formally described in 2014 by the ichthyologists Fábio Fernandes Roxo, Gabriel de Souza da Costa e Silva, Cláudio Henrique Zawadzki and Claudio de Oliveira with its type locality given as the Bananeiras stream, a tributary of the Gualaxo do Norte River, in the Doce River basin in the Municipality of Ouro Preto, in the…

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Brazil · 11