Rineloricaria langei

Taxonavigation: Siluriformes

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Otomorpha Subcohors: Ostariophysi Sectio: Otophysa Ordo: Siluriformes

Familia: Loricariidae
Subfamilia: Loricariinae
Tribus: Loricariini
Genus: Rineloricaria

Species: Rineloricaria langei

Name

Rineloricaria langei Ingenito et al., 2008

• Holotype: MCP 42506.
• Paratypes: MCP 23459 (4); MHNCI 8937 (10); MNRJ 31157 (5, 1 c&s).

Type locality: Quatro Varras, rio Iraí, at Fazenda Moura-Daz, downstream Reservoir of rio Iraí - SANEPAR, 49°05'26"W, 25°29'23"S, Paraná, Brazil.

Etymology: in honor of Rudolf Bruno Lange (* 1922), one of the first curators of the zoological collections of Museu de História Natural Capão da Imbuia (MHNCI) during the 1940s, in which the ichthyological collection is included. (From The ETYFish Project)

References

• Costa-Silva, G. J., Rodriguez, M. S., Roxo, F. F., Foresti, F. & Oliveira, C., 2015: Using Different Methods to Access the Difficult Task of Delimiting Species in a Complex Neotropical Hyperdiverse Group. PLoS ONE, 10 (9): e0135075. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0135075

• Ingenito, L. F. S., Ghazzi, M. S., Duboc, L. F. & Abilhoa, V., 2008: Two new species of Rineloricaria (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the rio Iguaçu basin, southern Brazil. Neotropical Ichthyology 6 (3): 355–366. DOI: 10.1590/S1679-62252008000300009

Links

• Rineloricaria langei in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2025. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
• Rineloricaria langei in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2025. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.