Curculionichthys coxipone
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]
| Curculionichthys coxipone | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Loricariidae |
| Genus: | Curculionichthys |
| Species: | C. coxipone |
| Binomial name | |
| Curculionichthys coxipone Roxo, Silva, Ochoa & Oliveira, 2015 | |
References
- 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
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