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Rhinelepis
Sign in to saveRhinelepis is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Loricariidae, the armored catfishes, and the subfamily Rhinelepinae, the rhinelepine plecos. The fishes in this genus are found in South America.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderSiluriformes
- FamilyLoricariidae
Rhinelepis (лат.) — род лучепёрых рыб из семейства кольчужных сомов, обитающий в Южной Америке. Научное название происходит от греч. rhinos — «нос» и греч. lepis — «чешуя».
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 4
- Family
- Loricariidae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA (INPA), FMNH
- Recorded in
- Suriname, Brasil, Brazil
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- Parent taxon
- Hypostominae
- Image
- R. aspera.jpg
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Rhinelepis is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Loricariidae, the armored catfishes, and the subfamily Rhinelepinae, the rhinelepine plecos. The fishes in this genus are found in South America.
==Taxonomy== Rhinelepis was first proposed as a genus in 1829 by the Swiss-American naturalist Louis Agassiz with Rhinelepis aspera as its type species by monotypy, a species first described by Johann Baptist von Spix and Agassiz in 1829 with its type locality given as Rio São Francisco, at Januária, 15°29’37”S, 44°21’25”W, Minas Gerais. This is the type genus of the subfamily Rhinelepinae, which is in the family Loricariidae, in the suborder Loricarioidei of the order Siluriformes, the catfishes.
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