| Fonchiiloricaria | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Loricariidae |
| Subfamily: | Loricariinae |
| Genus: | Fonchiiloricaria Rodriguez, Ortega & Covain, 2011 [2] |
| Species: | F. nanodon |
| Binomial name | |
| Fonchiiloricaria nanodon Rodriguez, Ortega & Covain, 2011 [3] | |
Fonchiiloricaria is a monospecific genus of freshwater ray-finned fish is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Loricariidae, the mailed catfishes, and the subfamily Loricariinae, the armored suckermouth catfishes. [3] The only species in this genus is Fonchiiloricaria nanodon, a catfish which is known only from the middle Huallaga River drainage, near Tingo Maria in Peru. [1]
The generic name Fonchiiloricaria honours the Peruvian ichthyologist Fonchii Chang, who collected the holotype, and the specific name νᾶνος "nā́nos", meaning dwarf or reduced and ὀδούς "odoús", meaning tooth. [4]
