Cordylancistrus
| Cordylancistrus | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Loricariidae |
| Tribe: | Ancistrini |
| Genus: | Cordylancistrus Isbrücker, 1980 |
| Type species | |
| Pseudancistrus torbesensis Schultz, 1944
| |
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]
Species
There are currently 7 recognized species in this genus:[2][3]
- Cordylancistrus daguae (Eigenmann, 1912)
- Cordylancistrus nephelion Provenzano & Milani, 2006
- Cordylancistrus perijae Pérez & Provenzano, 1996
- Cordylancistrus pijao Provenzano & Villa-Navarro, 2017
- Cordylancistrus setosus (Boulenger, 1887)
- Cordylancistrus tayrona Provenzano, Milani & Ardila Rodríguez, 2017
- Cordylancistrus torbesensis (Schultz, 1944)
References
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Cordylancistrus". FishBase. October 2015 version.
- ^ Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Cordylancistrus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
- ^ 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. doi:10.1643/CI-14-194.