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Parotocinclus longirostris

Parotocinclus longirostris

Classification

Rhinotocinclus longirostris 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 Rhinotocinclus longirostris was first formally described as Parotocinclus longirostris in 2014 by the Brazilian ichthyologists Pablo César Lehmann Albornoz, Henrique Lazzarotto and Roberto Esser dos Reis with its type locality given as the Preto da Eva River, at the kilometre 80 on the Manaus-Itacoatiara highway, Manaus, in the Brazilian state of…

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Brazil · 2