Parancistrus
Sign in to saveParancistrus is a small genus of suckermouth armored catfishes native to South America.
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Vinony files it under Ancistrini, Catfish genera and Freshwater fish genera.
Its subject is documented across 11 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Instance of
- monotypic taxon
- Parent taxon
- Hypostominae
- Image
- Parancistrus aurantiacus de Castelnau.jpg
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- Parancistrus
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- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Parancistrus
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- Appearance and anatomy
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Parancistrus is a small genus of suckermouth armored catfishes native to South America.
==Taxonomy== Three species - Hypostomus aurantiacus, H. nigricans and H. vicinus - were described by François Louis de la Porte, comte de Castelnau in 1855. Parancistrus was described by Pieter Bleeker in 1862 and P. aurantiacus designated as type. Later, P. nigricans and P. vicinus were deemed to be synonyms of P. aurantiacus, making P. aurantiacus the only species of Parancistrus until P. nudiventris was described in 2005.
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