Chinchaysuyoa

Chinchaysuyoa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Siluriformes
Family:	Ariidae
Genus:	Chinchaysuyoa ; Marceniuk, Marchena, Oliveira, and Betancur-R, 2019

Last updated September 19, 2025

Chinchaysuyoa is a genus of catfishes in the family Ariidae. They are found in freshwater habitats along the Pacific Coast of northern South America. This genus was named after Chinchay Suyu, the Incan name for the region that these fishes are native to.^[1]

Species

There are currently two species in this genus:^[1]

Chinchaysuyoa labiata (Boulenger, 1898)
Chinchaysuyoa ortegai Marceniuk, Marchena, Oliveira & Betancur-R, 2019

References

1 2 Alexandre Pires Marceniuk; José Marchena Dioses; Claudio Oliveira; Ricardo Betancur-Rodríguez (December 2018). "Chinchaysuyoa, a new genus of the fish family Ariidae (Siluriformes), with a redescription of Chinchaysuyoa labiata from Ecuador and a new species description from Peru". Zootaxa. 4551 (3): 361–378. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4551.3.5. PMID 30790813 – via ResearchGate.

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[:0-1] 1 2 Alexandre Pires Marceniuk; José Marchena Dioses; Claudio Oliveira; Ricardo Betancur-Rodríguez (December 2018). "Chinchaysuyoa, a new genus of the fish family Ariidae (Siluriformes), with a redescription of Chinchaysuyoa labiata from Ecuador and a new species description from Peru". Zootaxa. 4551 (3): 361–378. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4551.3.5. PMID 30790813 – via ResearchGate.

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