Gymnotocinclus

Gymnotocinclus is a genus of small freshwater catfish in the family Loricariidae, native to the Tocantins River basin in Brazil.[1][2]

Gymnotocinclus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Family: Loricariidae
Subfamily: Hypoptopomatinae
Genus: Gymnotocinclus
Carvalho, Lehmann A. & Reis, 2008
Type species
Gymnotocinclus anosteos
Carvalho, Lehmann A. & Reis, 2008
Species

2, see text

Species

There are two species in the genus:[1][2]

References

  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2017). Species of Gymnotocinclus in FishBase. June 2017 version.
  2. Roxo, Fábio F.; Gabriel S. C. Silva; Luz E. Ochoa; Cláudio H. Zawadzki (2017). "Description of A New Species of Gymnotocinclus from the rio Tocantins Basin with Phylogenetic Analysis of the Subfamily Hypoptopomatinae (Siluriformes: Loricariidae)". Zootaxa. 4268 (3): 337–359. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4268.3.2. PMID 28610361.


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