''Chaetostoma lexa'' is a
species of
armored catfish Armoured catfish may refer to:
*Family Loricariidae: The armoured suckermouth catfish, also known as suckermouth catfish, armoured catfish or simply 'plecs' or 'plecos'
*Family Callichthyidae: armoured catfish, includes the genera
**''Corydoras'', ...
only known from streams and rivers that feed into the
Huallaga River near
Tingo María
Tingo María is the capital of Leoncio Prado Province in the Huánuco Region in central Peru. It has a population of 46,191 inhabitants ( 2017 census).
Tingo María was considered unreachable until 1936, when the Montaña Road reached the settle ...
,
Leoncio Prado Province,
Peru. This species grows to a length of
SL.
[Salcedo, N.J. (2013)]
Description of ''Loraxichthys lexa'', new genus and species (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Río Huallaga Basin, central Peru, with notes on the morphology of the enigmatic ''Lipopterichthys carrioni'' Norman, 1935.
''Zootaxa, 3640 (4): 557–571.'' The
genus ''Loraxichthys'' is a synonym of ''Chaetostoma''.
[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.'']
References
lexa
Fish described in 2013
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