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Neoplecostomus yapo

Neoplecostomus yapo

Classification

Neoplecostomus yapo 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 yapo was first formally described in 2008 by the Brazilian ichthyologists Cláudio Henrique Zawadzki, Carla Simone Pavanelli Carla Simone Pavanelli and Francisco Langeani-Neto with its type locality given as the Fortaleza Stream at Fazenda Santo Amaro near Tibagi, a tributary of the Yapó River in the Tibagi River basin, in the Brazilian state…

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Brazil · 44