Cordylancistrus

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Cordylancistrus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Family: Loricariidae
Tribe: Ancistrini
Genus: Cordylancistrus
Isbrücker, 1980
Type species
Pseudancistrus torbesensis
Schultz, 1944

Cordylancistrus is a genus of suckermouth armored catfish native to South America. It is much the same as Chaetostoma . The few differences are a wider head, longer cheek odontodes, and plates on the snout. Cordylancistrus can be found in rivers and streams high in the Andes, from Venezuela to Colombia. [1]

Species

There are currently 7 recognized species in this genus: [2] [3]

References

  1. ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Cordylancistrus". FishBase . October 2015 version.
  2. ↑ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Cordylancistrus". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 8 September 2025.
  3. ↑ Lujan, N.K.; Meza-Vargas, V.; Astudillo-Clavijo, V.; Barriga-Salazar, R.; López-Fernández, H. (2015). "A Multilocus Molecular Phylogeny for Chaetostoma Clade Genera and Species with a Review of Chaetostoma (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Central Andes". Copeia. 103 (3): 664–701.


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