Hypoptopoma
| Hypoptopoma | |
|---|---|
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| Hypoptopoma inexspectatum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Division: | Teleostei |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Loricariidae |
| Subfamily: | Hypoptopomatinae |
| Genus: | Hypoptopoma Günther, 1868[1] |
| Type species | |
| Hypoptopoma thoracatum Günther 1868[1] | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Hypoptopoma is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Loricariidae, the mailed catfishes, and the subfamily Hypoptopomatinae, the cascudinhos.[1] The catfishes in this genus are found in South America.
Taxonomy
Hypoptopoma was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1868 by the German-born British ichthyologist and herpetologist Albert Günther when he described Hypoptopoma thoracatum.[1] Günther gave H. thoracatum's type locality as Xeberos in the upper Amazon of Peru.[2] This genus is the type genus of the subfamily Hypoptopomatinae,[3] which is classified in family Loricariidae in the Neotropical catfish suborder Loricarioidei.[4]
Species
Hypoptopoma contains the following valid species:[2]
- Hypoptopoma baileyi Aquino & Schaefer, 2010
- Hypoptopoma bianale Aquino & Schaefer, 2010
- Hypoptopoma brevirostratum Aquino & Schaefer, 2010
- Hypoptopoma elongatum Aquino & Schaefer, 2010
- Hypoptopoma guianense Boeseman, 1974
- Hypoptopoma gulare Cope, 1878
- Hypoptopoma incognitum Aquino & Schaefer, 2010
- Hypoptopoma inexspectatum (Holmberg, 1893)
- Hypoptopoma machadoi Aquino & Schaefer, 2010
- Hypoptopoma muzuspi Aquino & Schaefer, 2010
- Hypoptopoma psilogaster Fowler, 1915
- Hypoptopoma steindachneri Boulenger, 1895
- Hypoptopoma thoracatum Günther, 1868
Distribution
Hypoptopoma species inhabit the drainage basins to the east of the Andes, except for river systems draining to the Atlantic between the mouth of the Amazon River in Brazil and the Paraná River in Argentina.[5]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Hypoptopomatinae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 15 April 2026.
- 1 2 Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Hypoptopoma". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 15 April 2026.
- ↑ Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 1–230. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1. PMID 25543675.
- ↑ Richard van der Laan; Ronald Fricke (eds.). "Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes Classification". Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 15 April 2026.
- ↑ Aquino, Adriana E.; Miquelarena, Amalia M. (2001). "Redescription of Hypoptopoma inexspectata (Holmberg, 1883), with Notes on its Anatomy (Siluriformes: Loricariidae)" (PDF). PHYSIS (Buenos Aires), Secc. B. 58 (134–135): 1–18. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2007-06-15.
Further reading
- Aquino, A. E.; Schaefer, S. A. (2010). "Systematics of the genus Hypoptopoma Günther, 1868 (Siluriformes, Loricariidae)" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 336: 1–110. doi:10.1206/336.1. S2CID 83679116.