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Langeani's Pleco

Neoplecostomus langeanii

Classification

Neoplecostomus langeanii 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 langeanii 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 São Domingos River, a tributary of Muzambinho River, in the Rio Grande basin, at 21°23'22"S, 46°28'40"W, municipality of Muzambinho, in the Brazilian state of…

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Brazil · 1