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Pareiorhaphis mutuca

Pareiorhaphis mutuca

Classification

Pareiorhaphis mutuca 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 Pareiorhaphis mutuca was first formally described in 1999 as Hemipsilichthys mutuca by the Brazilian ichthyologists Jose Carlos de Oliveira and Osvaldo Takeshi Oyakawa with its type locality given as Das Velhas River drainage, Nova Lima County, Mutuca Stream, at right side of road from Belo Horizonte to Nova Lima at kilometre 20, about 20°60'S, 43°55'W.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Brazil · 1