• Source: Hypoptopoma

Hypoptopoma is a genus of armored catfishes native to South America.




Taxonomy


The genus was established by Albert C. L. G. Günther in 1868 for his new species Hypoptopoma thoracatum, on the basis of the peculiar, depressed, spatulate formation of the head with the eyes on the lateral edges of the head.




Species


There are currently 15 recognized species in this genus:

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 joberti (Vaillant, 1880)
Hypoptopoma machadoi Aquino & Schaefer, 2010
Hypoptopoma muzuspi Aquino & Schaefer, 2010
Hypoptopoma psilogaster Fowler, 1915
Hypoptopoma spectabile (Eigenmann, 1914)
Hypoptopoma steindachneri Boulenger, 1895
Hypoptopoma sternoptychum (Schaefer, 1996)
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.




References






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.

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Hypoptopoma
• Hypoptopoma thoracatum
• Hypoptopoma machadoi
• Hypoptopoma incognitum
• Hypoptopoma bianale
• Hypoptopoma inexspectatum
• Hypoptopoma gulare
• Hypoptopoma elongatum
• Hypoptopoma baileyi
• Hypoptopoma guianense