Chinchaysuyoa ortegai

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Chinchaysuyoa ortegai
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Family: Ariidae
Genus: Chinchaysuyoa
Species:
C. ortegai
Binomial name
Chinchaysuyoa ortegai

Chinchaysuyoa ortegai is a species of catfish in the family Ariidae. It is endemic to freshwater bodies in northern Peru. Specimens of this species were formerly classified as Hexanematichthys henni (now C. labiata ) until they were found to actually represent a new species in the genus Chinchaysuyoa . [1]

References

  1. 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.