Hypoptopoma
Sign in to saveHypoptopoma is a genus of armored catfishes native to South America.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderSiluriformes
- FamilyLoricariidae
Habitatfreshwater
Observations recorded2,355
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 435
- Family
- Loricariidae
- Collections
- TCWC, USNM, ANSP
- Recorded in
- Venezuela, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina
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Hypoptopoma is a genus of armored catfishes native to South America.
==Taxonomy== The genus was established by Albert C. L. G. Günther in 1868 for his new species Hypoptopoma thoracatum, on the basis of the peculiar, depressed, spatulate formation of the head with the eyes on the lateral edges of the head.
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