''Chaetostoma dupouii'' is a
species of
catfish in the family
Loricariidae. It is native to
South America, where it occurs in the
Tuy River basin in
Venezuela. The species reaches SL. It was described in 1945 by Agustín Fernández-Yépez, a Venezuelan
ichthyologist
Ichthyology is the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fish, including bony fish ( Osteichthyes), cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes), and jawless fish (Agnatha). According to FishBase, 33,400 species of fish had been described as of Octobe ...
, with its
type locality
Type locality may refer to:
* Type locality (biology)
* Type locality (geology)
See also
* Local (disambiguation)
* Locality (disambiguation)
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listed as the Encantado River, a tributary of the Río Grande, which itself is a tributary of the Tuy River.
''Chaetostoma dupouii'' occasionally appears in the aquarium trade, where it is sometimes referred to as Dupou's rubbernose.
References
dupouii
Fish described in 1945
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