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Published November 27, 2023 | Version v1
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Loricariidae Rafinesque 1815

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Escuela de Biología, Museo de Zoología / Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Ecología Tropical (CIBET) and Centro de
  • 2. Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, 480 Wilson Rd # 13, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA joel. t. betts @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6018 - 8995
  • 3. Unidad de Gestión Técnica de Proyectos - Oficina de Relaciones Internacionales y de Cooperación Externa (ORICE / UGETEP),
  • 4. Universidad Americana (UAM, Costado Noroeste Camino de Oriente, Managua, Nicaragua edgar. ecologica @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 8148 - 3195
  • 5. Department of Environment and Development, Zamorano Biodiversity Center. Zamorano University of Tegucigalpa, P. O. Box 93, Honduras evandenberghe @ zamorano. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7566 - 0415
  • 6. Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH). Chicago, Illinois, United States of America delias @ fieldmuseum. org; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4215 - 0384 cmcmahan @ fieldmuseum. org; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2113 - 8554

Description

Family Loricariidae Rafinesque 1815 (Fig. 3D). Suckermouth Armored Catfishes; Peces Diablo, Plecos, Peces Gato Acorazados

Description: Body generally elongate, robust, caudally depressed, covered by bony plates; usually less than 70 cm in length; mouth ventral, with papillose lips; pectoral, pelvic and dorsal fins usually with strong spines; adipose fin usually present, with a spine at the anterior border (Angulo et al. 2021, Nelson et al. 2016). Distribution: Freshwater; naturally from Costa Rica, Panama and South America, introduced elsewhere (Nelson et al. 2016). One genus and one species in Nicaraguan freshwaters.

Notes

Published as part of Angulo, Arturo, Betts, Joel T., González-Alemán, Néstor J., Castañeda, Edgar, Berghe, Eric Van Den, Elías, Diego J., Mcmahan, Caleb D. & Matamoros, Wilfredo A., 2023, Continental fishes of Nicaragua: diversity, distribution and conservation status; with an annotated and illustrated checklist of species and an identification guide to families, pp. 1-89 in Zootaxa 5376 (1) on page 26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5376.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10208788

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/038C8788E85AFFACFF792FE9FD653095

Cites
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.10208796 (DOI)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5376.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/10208788 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFB5FFF0E843FFB5FFEE2C1FFFA1347C (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/9ECCB3F7-5481-47C2-8A5A-E9A3F38C31BA (URL)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/038C8788E85AFFACFF792FE9FD653095 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/219296052 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/279636/taxon/038C8788E85AFFACFF792FE9FD653095.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Rafinesque
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Siluriformes
Family
Loricariidae
Taxon rank
family
Taxonomic concept label
Loricariidae Rafinesque, 1815 sec. Angulo, Betts, González-Alemán, Castañeda, Berghe, Elías, Mcmahan & Matamoros, 2023

References

  • Angulo, A., Ramirez-Coghi, A. R. & Sanchez, M. L. (2021) Claves para la identificacion de los peces de las aguas continentales e insulares de Costa Rica. Parte I: Familias. UNED Research Journal, 13 (1), 27 - 27. https: // doi. org / 10.22458 / urj. v 13 i 1.3145