Rhinelepis
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| Rhinelepis | |
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| Rhinelepis aspera | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Loricariidae |
| Subfamily: | Rhinelepinae |
| Genus: | Rhinelepis Agassiz, 1829[1] |
| Type species | |
| Rhinelepis aspera | |
Rhinelepis is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Loricariidae, the armored catfishes, and the subfamily Rhinelepinae, the rhinelepine plecos. The fishes in this genus are found in South America.
Rhinelepis was first proposed as a genus in 1829 by the Swiss-American naturalist Louis Agassiz with Rhinelepis aspera as its type species by monotypy,[1] a species first described by Johann Baptist von Spix and Agassiz in 1829 with its type locality given as Rio São Francisco, at Januária, 15°29’37”S, 44°21’25”W, Minas Gerais.[2] This is the type genus of the subfamily Rhinelepinae,[3] which is in the family Loricariidae, in the suborder Loricarioidei of the order Siluriformes, the catfishes.[4]
Species
Rhinelepis contains the following species:[2]
- Rhinelepis aspera Spix & Agassiz, 1829
- Rhinelepis strigosa Valenciennes, 1840
