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catfish (order Siluriformes), with 92
genera and just over 680 species.
Loricariids originate from
freshwater habitats of
Costa Rica, Panama, and tropical...
- Plecostomus, pleco, or plec is the
common name of
several species of
freshwater loricariid catfish commonly sold as
aquarium fish.
These include:
Hypostomus plecostomus...
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plecostomus and its
allies and is
often used as a
catchall term for any
loricariids remotely resembling that species. The type
species is
Ancistrus cirrhosus...
- genera,
Delturus and Hemipsilichthys. This
group is
sister to all
other loricariids except Lithogenes. The
geographical distribution of Delturinae, exclusively...
- has
sometimes been
incorrectly used for
several more-or-less
similar loricariid catfishes, both in the po****r and
scientific literature. For example...
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Jonathan W. (1998). "Modifications of the
Digestive Tract for
Holding Air in
Loricariid and
Scoloplacid Catfishes" (PDF). Copeia. 1998 (3): 663–675. doi:10.2307/1447796...
- panaque,
clown plecostomus,
clown pleco, or
ringlet pleco, is a
dwarf loricariid. By
numbering systems such as the L-number system, this fish may also...
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common and most po****r
freshwater aquarium algae eaters include: Many
loricariid catfish of
South America, such as
genera Otocinclus, Ancistrus, and Plecostomus...
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people to
identify various loricariid catfish by a "common name"
before the fish is
officially described. When a
loricariid receives an
official scientific...
- State, Brazil: the Perequê-Áçu and the Taquari. This is a
fairly typical loricariid with a
broad head and
large mouth used for
adhesion to
rocks in fast-flowing...
