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Pareiorhina carrancas

Pareiorhina carrancas

Classification

Pareiorhina carrancas 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 Pareiorhina carrancas was first formally described in 2005 by the Brazilian ichthyologists Flávio Alicino Bockmann and Alexandre Cunha Ribeiro with its type locality given as the stream of Debaixo da Serra, an upper course tributary of Beijinho stream, which is in turn a left margin tributary of the Grande River at the Camargos Reservoir, in the foothills…

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Brazil · 5