Chaetostoma dupouii

Chaetostoma dupouii[1] is a species of catfish in the family Loricariidae. It is native to South America, where it occurs in the Tuy River basin in Venezuela. The species reaches 7.9 centimetres (3.1 in) SL.[2] It was described in 1945 by Agustín Fernández-Yépez, a Venezuelan ichthyologist, with its type locality listed as the Encantado River, a tributary of the Río Grande, which itself is a tributary of the Tuy River.[3]

Chaetostoma dupouii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Family: Loricariidae
Genus: Chaetostoma
Species:
C. dupouii
Binomial name
Chaetostoma dupouii
Fernández-Yépez, 1945

Chaetostoma dupouii occasionally appears in the aquarium trade, where it is sometimes referred to as Dupou's rubbernose.[4]

References

  1. "Chaetostoma dupouii". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2022). "Chaetostoma dupouii". FishBase.
  3. Fernández-Yépez, A. 1945. Un nuevo loricarido para Venezuela. Descripción de un ejemplar de Loricariidae, colectado en el Río Encantado, afluente del Río Tuy por medio del Río Grande. Memoires de la Sociedad de Ciencias Naturales La Salle 5(14): 27-34. (In Spanish)
  4. "Chaetostoma dupouii • Loricariidae • Cat-eLog". www.planetcatfish.com. Retrieved 2022-09-01.


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