Pareiorhina pelicicei

Pareiorhina pelicicei

Classification

Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Family: Loricariidae

Pareiorhina pelicicei 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 pelicicei was first formally described in 2015 by the Brazilian ichthyologists Valter Monteiro de Azevedo-Santos and Fábio Fernandes Roxo with its type locality given as the Tamborete stream a tributary of the Rio Grande in the upper basin of the Paraná River at 20°38'38"S, 46°10'13"W in the municipality of Capitólio in the Brazilian state of…

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Brazil · 1

Sources and credits

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Pareiorhina pelicicei

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