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]
| Cordylancistrus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Loricariidae |
| Tribe: | Ancistrini |
| Genus: | Cordylancistrus Isbrücker, 1980 |
| Type species | |
| Pseudancistrus torbesensis Schultz, 1944
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Species edit
There are currently 5 recognized species in this genus:[2]
- Cordylancistrus daguae (C. H. Eigenmann, 1912)
- Cordylancistrus nephelion Provenzano & Milani, 2006
- Cordylancistrus perijae A. Pérez & Provenzano, 1996
- Cordylancistrus platyrhynchus (Fowler, 1943)
- Cordylancistrus torbesensis (L. P. Schultz, 1944)
References edit
- ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2015). Species of Cordylancistrus in FishBase. October 2015 version.
- ^ 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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