Biology:Chaetostoma

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Short description: Genus of fishes

Chaetostoma
Chaetostoma Loborhynchos Tschudi top.jpg
Chaetostoma loborhynchos
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Family: Loricariidae
Subfamily: Hypostominae
Tribe: Ancistrini
Genus: Chaetostoma
Tschudi, 1846
Type species
Chaetostoma loborhynchos
Tschudi 1846
Synonyms

Lipopterichthys Norman, 1935
Loraxichthys Salcedo, 2013

Chaetostoma, also known as the bristlemouth catfish, is a genus of suckermouth armored catfishes native to South America with one species, C. fischeri, extending into Panama.[1] Most species inhabit flowing rivers in the lower Andes and its foothills.[2] Some species are kept in unheated aquaria.

Species

Chaetostoma anomalum
Chaetostoma breve
Chaetostoma microps

These are the currently recognized species in this genus:

References

  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2017). Species of Chaetostoma in FishBase. October 2017 version.
  2. van der Sleen, P., ed (2017). Field Guide to the Fishes of the Amazon, Orinoco, and Guianas. Princeton University Press. pp. 270–271. ISBN 978-0691170749. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Lujan, N.K., Meza-Vargas, V., Astudillo-Clavijo, V., Barriga-Salazar, R. & López-Fernández, H. (2015): A Multilocus Molecular Phylogeny for Chaetostoma Clade Genera and Species with a Review of Chaetostoma (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Central Andes. Copeia, 103 (3): 664-701.
  4. Urbano‐Bonilla, A., & Ballen, G. A. (2020). A new species of Chaetostoma (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Orinoco basin with comments on Amazonian species of the genus in Colombia. Journal of Fish Biology. doi:10.1111/jfb.14640
  5. Ardila Rodríguez, C.A. (2013): Chaetostoma floridablancaensis sp. nov. una nueva especie de Choque (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) del Municipio de Floridablanca, Departamento de Santander – Colombia. Universidad Metropolitana de Barranquilla. Barranquilla, Colombia. 24pp.
  6. 6.0 6.1 Ballen, G.A., Urbano-Bonilla, A. & Maldonado-Ocampo, J.A. (2016): Description of a new species of the genus Chaetostoma from the Orinoco River drainage with comments on Chaetostoma milesi Fowler, 1941 (Siluriformes: Loricariidae). Zootaxa, 4105 (2): 181–197.
  7. Salcedo, N.J.; Ortega, H. (2015). "A new species of Chaetostoma, an armored catfish (Siluriformes: Loricariidae), from the río Marañón drainage, Amazon basin, Peru". Neotropical Ichthyology 13 (1): 151–156. doi:10.1590/1982-0224-20140073. http://www.scielo.br/pdf/ni/v13n1/1679-6225-ni-13-01-00151.pdf. 

Wikidata ☰ Q1497039 entry