Pareiorhina cepta

Pareiorhina cepta

Classification

Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Family: Loricariidae

Pareiorhina cepta 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 cepta was first formally described in 2005 by the Brazilian ichthyologists Fábio Fernandes Roxo, Gabriel de Souza da Costa e Silva, Mahmoud Mehanna and Cluadio de Oliveira with its type locality given as the Lavapés Stream, a tributary of the Santo Antonio River, which flows into the Samburá River, a tributary of the São Francisco River at…

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Brazil · 2

Sources and credits

DescriptionPareiorhina cepta, Wikipedia contributors

Pareiorhina cepta

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