''Hypostomus cochliodon'' 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'', ...
native to the
Paraguay and middle
Paraná River
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basins in northern
Argentina, southern
Brazil and
Paraguay. Initially it did not occur in the upper Paraná basin above the
Guaíra Falls, but these disappeared after the construction of the
Itaipu Dam, allowing this species (and several others) to spread. It grows to a
standard length
Fish measurement is the measuring of individual fish and various parts of their anatomies. These data are used in many areas of ichthyology, including taxonomy and fisheries biology.
Overall length
* Standard length (SL) is the length of a fish m ...
of .
The species is sometimes kept in aquaria.
Unlike most other Loricariidae, it has been speculated that this fish is a wood-eating specialist alongside the usual plant material and algae (see also
xylophagy in ''Panaque'').
References
cochliodon
Freshwater fish of Argentina
Suckermouth catfish of Brazil
Fish of Paraguay
Taxa named by Rudolf Kner
Fish described in 1854
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