Parotocinclus cristatus
| Parotocinclus cristatus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Loricariidae |
| Genus: | Parotocinclus |
| Species: | P. cristatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Parotocinclus cristatus Garavello, 1977
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Parotocinclus cristatus[1] is a species of catfish in the family Loricariidae. It is native to South America, where it is known from coastal rivers near Ilhéus in the state of Bahia in Brazil. The species reaches 4 centimeters (1.6 in) in total length.[2]
Parotocinclus cristatus is sometimes referred to as the dwarf pleco, although the term "pleco" (a shortened form of "plecostomus") is generally used to refer only to members of the subfamily Hypostominae, and its use to refer to other loricariids is less common.[3] Despite this, "dwarf pleco" is sometimes applied to the genus Parotocinclus as a whole, including in academic literature.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ "Parotocinclus cristatus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2022). "Parotocinclus cristatus" in FishBase. March 2022 version.
- ^ "Parotocinclus cristatus • Loricariidae • Cat-eLog". www.planetcatfish.com. Retrieved 2022-09-02.
- ^ Pereira de Sousa, João & Bitencourt, Jamille & Sampaio, Iracilda & Schneider, Horacio & Affonso, Paulo. (2021). “More than meets the eye”: phylogeographic inferences and remarkable cryptic diversity and in endemic catfish Parotocinclus (Loricariidae: Hypoptopomatinae) from neglected and impacted basins in South America. Conservation Genetics. 22. 10.1007/s10592-021-01336-3.
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