Chain catfish , or Loricaria ( lat. Loricariidae ) - a family of freshwater fish of the order Somoiforidae .
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Content
- 1 Description
- 2 Classification
- 3 Distribution
- 4 notes
Description
Fish with a flattened body, covered with bone plates. Body shape and coloring are very variable. On the upper jaw there is one pair of antennae. The mouth is transformed into a suction cup, which allows these fish to stick to the substrate and stay on it even in fast flow. They feed by scraping algae, small invertebrates and detritus from immersed substrates in water. They populated almost all freshwater habitats from fast streams flowing from the Andes to quiet brackish estuaries, groundwater and acidic ponds of the Guiana Plateau [1] .
Classification
In the chain-mail catfish family, 7 subfamilies are distinguished, 106 genera with 934 species of fish, it includes the following genera [2] [3] [4] :
- Subfamily Delturinae
- Delturus
- Hemipsilichthys
- Subfamily Hypoptopomatinae
- Triba Hypoptopomatini
- Acestridium
- Hypoptopoma
- Nannoptopoma
- Niobichthys
- Otocinclus
- Oxyropsis
- Tribe Otothyrini
- Corumbataia
- Epactionotus
- Eurycheilichthys
- Hisonotus
- Microlepidogaster
- Otothyris
- Otothyropsis
- Parotocinclus
- Pseudotocinclus
- Pseudotothyris
- Schizolecis
- Hypoptopomatinae incertae sedis
- Gymnotocinclus
- Triba Hypoptopomatini
- Subfamily Hypostominae
- Tribe Ancistrini
- Acanthicus
- Ancistrus
- Baryancistrus
- Chaetostoma
- Cordylancistrus
- Dekeyseria
- Dolichancistrus
- Exastilithoxus
- Hemiancistrus
- Hopliancistrus
- Hypancistrus
- Lasiancistrus
- Leporacanthicus
- Leptoancistrus
- Lithoxus
- Megalancistrus
- Neblinichthys
- Panaque
- Parancistrus
- Peckoltia
- Pseudacanthicus
- Pseudancistrus
- Pseudolithoxus
- Spectracanthicus
- Tribe Corymbophanini
- Corymbophanes
- Tribe Hypostomini
- Hypostomus
- Tribe Pterygoplichthyini
- Hemiancistrus annectens group
- Pterygoplichthys
- Tribe Rhinelepini
- Pogonopoma
- Pseudorinelepis
- Rhinelepis
- Tribe Ancistrini
- Subfamily Lithogeneinae
- Lithogenes
- Subfamily Loricariinae
- Tribe Loricariini
- Loricaria group
- Brochiloricaria
- Loricaria
- Paraloricaria
- Ricola
- Loricariichthys group
- Furcodontichthys
- Hemiiodontichthys
- Limatulichthys
- Loricariichthys
- Pseudoloricaria
- Pseudohemiodon group
- Apistoloricaria
- Crossoloricaria
- Dentectus
- Planiloricaria
- Pyxiloricaria
- Rhadinoloricaria
- Pseudohemiodon
- Reganella
- Rineloricaria group
- Dasyloricaria
- Ixinandria
- Rineloricaria
- Spatuloricaria
- Loricaria group
- Tribe Harttiini
- Aposturisoma
- Cteniloricaria
- Farlowella
- Harttia
- Harttiella
- Lamontichthys
- Metaloricaria
- Pterosturisoma
- Sturisoma
- Sturisomatichthys
- Tribe Loricariini
- Subfamily Neoplecostominae
- Isbrueckerichthys
- Kronichthys
- Neoplecostomus
- Pareiorhaphis
- Pareiorhina
Distribution
They are found in Central and South America from Costa Rica to Argentina [1] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Covain R. & Fisch-Muller S. The genera of the Neotropical armored catfish subfamily Loricariinae (Siluriformes: Loricariidae): a practical key and synopsis (English) // Zootaxa : journal. - (2007). - Vol. 1462 . - P. 1–40 . - ISSN 1175-5326 . - DOI : 10.11646 / zootaxa.1462.1.1 .
- ↑ Armbruster JW "Loricariid taxa list" .
- ↑ Reis, Roberto E .; Pereira, Edson HL; Armbruster, Jonathan W. (2006). "Delturinae, a new loricariid catfish subfamily (Teleostei, Siluriformes), with revisions of Delturus and Hemipsilichthys " // Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 147 (2): 277-299. DOI : 10.1111 / j.1096-3642.2006.00229.x
- ↑ FishBase : SpeciesList of Loricariidae