Curculionichthys coxipone
Appearance
Curculionichthys coxipone | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Siluriformes |
Family: | Loricariidae |
Genus: | Curculionichthys |
Species: | C. coxipone
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Binomial name | |
Curculionichthys coxipone Roxo, Silva, Ochoa & Oliveira, 2015
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Curculionichthys coxipone is a species of catfish in the family Loricariidae. It is native to South America, where it occurs in the drainage basins of the Cuiabá River and the Paraguay River. It reaches 3 cm (1.2 inches) SL.[1] The species was described in 2015 by Fábio Fernandes Roxo, Gabriel Souza da Costa e Silva, Luz E. Orrego, and Claudio Oliveira, alongside the description of the genus Curculionichthys to include several species formerly classified in the genus Hisonotus.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2021). "Curculionichthys coxipone". FishBase. Archived from the original on 2022-01-28.
- ^ Roxo FF, Silva GSC, Ochoa LA, Oliveira C (2015) Description of a new genus and three new species of Otothyrinae (Siluriformes, Loricariidae). ZooKeys 534: 103-134. doi:10.3897/zookeys.534.6169