Rhinotocinclus

Rhinotocinclus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Siluriformes
Family:	Loricariidae
Subfamily:	Hypoptopomatinae
Genus:	Rhinotocinclus Reis & Lehmann A., 2022
Type species
Rhinotocinclus longirostris (Garavello, 1988)

Rhinotocinclus is a genus of armored catfishes native to South America. It was erected in July 2022, taking species from the genera Parotocinclus , Curculionichthys , and Hisonotus . ^[1]

Species

There are currently 23 recognized species in this genus: ^[2]

• Rhinotocinclus acuen (Silva, Roxo & Oliveira, 2014) ^[3]
• Rhinotocinclus bockmanni Carvalho & Datovo, 2012 ^[4]
• Rhinotocinclus britskii (Boeseman, 1974)
• Rhinotocinclus chromodontus (Britski & Garavello, 2007) ^[5]
• Rhinotocinclus collinsae (Schmidt & Ferraris, 1985)
• Rhinotocinclus dani (Roxo, Silva & Oliveira, 2016)
• Rhinotocinclus dinizae (Ribeiro-Silva, Silva, Venere, Pains da Silva & Roxo, 2020)
• Rhinotocinclus discolor Reis & Lehmann A., 2022
• Rhinotocinclus eppleyi (Schaefer & Provenzano, 1993)
• Rhinotocinclus halbothi (Lehmann A., Lazzarotto & Reis, 2014)
• Rhinotocinclus hardmani (Lehmann A., Lujan & Reis, 2022)
• Rhinotocinclus hera (Gamarra, Calegari & Reis, 2019)
• Rhinotocinclus isabelae Reis & Lehmann A., 2022
• Rhinotocinclus jumaorum (Dias, Silva, Oliveira & Roxo, 2018)
• Rhinotocinclus kwarup (Lehmann A. & Reis, 2021)
• Rhinotocinclus longirostris (Garavello, 1988)
• Rhinotocinclus loxochelis Reis & Lehmann A., 2022
• Rhinotocinclus marginalis Reis & Lehmann A., 2022
• Rhinotocinclus pentakelis (Roxo, Messias & Silva, 2019)
• Rhinotocinclus pilosus Reis & Lehmann A., 2022
• Rhinotocinclus polyochrus (Schaefer, 1988)
• Rhinotocinclus variola (Lehmann A., Schvambach & Reis, 2015)
• Rhinotocinclus yaka (Lehmann A., Lima & Reis, 2018)

References

1. Reis, Roberto; Lehmann A., Pablo. (2022). "A new genus of armored catfish (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Greater Amazon, with a review of the species and description of five new species". Neotropical Ichthyology. 20 (2) e220002. doi:10.1590/1982-0224-2022-0002.
2. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Rhinotocinclus". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 1 September 2025.
3. Silva, G.S.C.; Roxo, F.F.; Oliveira, C. (2014). "Hisonotus acuen, a new and phenotypically variable cascudinho (Siluriformes, Loricariidae, Hypoptopomatinae) from the upper rio Xingu basin, Brazil". ZooKeys. 442: 105–125.
4. Carvalho, M.; Datovo, A. (2012). "A New Species of Cascudinho of the Genus Hisonotus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae: Hypoptopomatinae) from the Upper Rio Tapajós Basin, Brazil". Copeia. 2012 (2): 266–275.
5. Britski, H.A.; Garavello, J.C. (2007). "Description of two new sympatric species of the genus Hisonotus Eigenmann and Eigenmann, 1889, from upper Rio Tapajós, Mato Grosso state, Brazil (Pisces: Ostariophysi: Loricariidae)". Brazilian Journal of Biology. 67 (3): 413–420. doi: 10.1590/s1519-69842007000300005 . PMID   18094823.