Pareiorhina rosai

Pareiorhina rosai

Classification

Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Family: Loricariidae

Pareiorhina rosai 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 rosai was first formally described in 2016 by the Brazilian ichthyologists Gabriel de Souza da Costa e Silva, Fábio Fernandes Roxo and Osvaldo Takeshi Oyakawa with its type locality given as an unknown river, a tributary of the Maranhão River, in the catchment of the Paraopeba River, São Francisco River basin at 20°26'39.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Brazil · 7

Sources and credits

DescriptionPareiorhina rosai, Wikipedia contributors

Pareiorhina rosai

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