''Glaphyropoma rodriguesi'' is a species of
pencil catfish endemic
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to
Brazil
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. This species grows to a length of
SL.
Etymology
The catfish is named in honor of herpetologist
Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues
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Places
*Pedro Miguel, a parish in the municipality of Horta and the island of Faial in the Azores Islands ...
(b. 1953), of the
Universidade de São Paulo
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, who, along with his students, collected and discovered the first-known specimens of this subfamily from a high-altitude region of north-eastern central Brazil.
References
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Trichomycteridae
Catfish of South America
Freshwater fish of Brazil
Endemic fauna of Brazil
Taxa named by Mário Cesar Cardoso de Pinna
Fish described in 1992
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