Rineloricaria capitonia

Taxonavigation

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 capitonia

Name

Rineloricaria capitonia Ghazzi, 2008

• Holotype: MCP 19687.
• Paratypes: MCN 11846 (4); MCP 18739 (24), 18740 (8), 19911 (3), 26900 (5), 31717 (8).

Type locality: Condor, rio Alegre estrada Condor/Colônia Cash, 28°11'S, 53°27'W, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Etymology: with a large head, referring to its large traingular head (when seen from above). (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

• Ghazzi, M. S., 2008: Nove espéces do gênero Rineloricaria (Siluriformes, Loricariidae) do rio Uruguai, do sul do Brasil. Iheringia, Série Zoologia (Porto Alegre), 98 (1): 100–122. DOI: 10.1590/S0073-47212008000100014

Links

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