Chaetostoma

Chaetostoma
Chaetostoma loborhynchos
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Siluriformes
Family:	Loricariidae
Subfamily:	Hypostominae
Tribe:	Ancistrini
Genus:	Chaetostoma Tschudi, 1846
Type species
Chaetostoma loborhynchos Tschudi 1846
Synonyms
Lipopterichthys Norman, 1935 Loraxichthys Salcedo, 2013

Chaetostoma, also known as the bristlemouth catfish, is a genus of suckermouth armored catfishes native to South America with one species, C. fischeri, extending into Panama.[1] Most species inhabit flowing rivers in the lower Andes and its foothills.[2] Some species are kept in unheated aquaria.

Species

Chaetostoma anomalum

Chaetostoma breve

Chaetostoma microps

These are the currently recognized species in this genus:

• Chaetostoma aburrensis (Posada, 1909)
• Chaetostoma anale (Fowler, 1943)
• Chaetostoma anomalum Regan, 1903
• Chaetostoma bifurcum Lujan, Meza-Vargas, Astudillo-Clavijo, Barriga-S. & López-Fernández, 2015[3]
• Chaetostoma branickii Steindachner, 1881
• Chaetostoma breve Regan, 1904[3]
• Chaetostoma brevilabiatum Dahl, 1942
• Chaetostoma carrioni (Norman, 1935)[3]
• Chaetostoma changae Salcedo, 2006
• Chaetostoma chimu Urbano-Bonilla & Ballen, 2020[4]
• Chaetostoma daidalmatos Salcedo, 2006
• Chaetostoma dermorhynchum Boulenger, 1887[3]
• Chaetostoma dorsale C. H. Eigenmann, 1922
• Chaetostoma dupouii Fernández-Yépez, 1945
• Chaetostoma fischeri Steindachner, 1879
• Chaetostoma floridablancaensis Ardila Rodríguez, 2013[5]
• Chaetostoma formosae Ballen, 2011
• Chaetostoma guairense Steindachner, 1881
• Chaetostoma jegui Rapp Py-Daniel, 1991
• Chaetostoma joropo Ballen, Urbano-Bonilla & Maldonado-Ocampo, 2016[6]
• Chaetostoma lepturum Regan, 1912
• Chaetostoma leucomelas C. H. Eigenmann, 1918
• Chaetostoma lexa (Salcedo, 2013)[3]
• Chaetostoma lineopunctatum C. H. Eigenmann & W. R. Allen, 1942
• Chaetostoma loborhynchos Tschudi, 1846
• Chaetostoma machiquense Fernández-Yépez & Martín Salazar, 1953
• Chaetostoma marginatum Regan, 1904
• Chaetostoma marmorescens C. H. Eigenmann & W. R. Allen, 1942
• Chaetostoma microps Günther, 1864[3]
• Chaetostoma milesi Fowler, 1941
• Chaetostoma niveum Fowler, 1944
• Chaetostoma nudirostre Lütken, 1874

• Chaetostoma orientale Meza-Vargas, Calegari, Lujan, Ballen, Oyakawa, Sousa, Rapp Py-Daniel and Reis, 2022[7]

• Chaetostoma palmeri Regan, 1912
• Chaetostoma patiae Fowler, 1945
• Chaetostoma paucispinis Regan, 1912
• Chaetostoma pearsei C. H. Eigenmann, 1920
• Chaetostoma platyrhynchus Fowler, 1943[6]
• Chaetostoma sovichthys L. P. Schultz, 1944
• Chaetostoma spondylus Salcedo & H. Ortega, 2015[8]
• Chaetostoma stannii Lütken, 1874
• Chaetostoma stroumpoulos Salcedo, 2006
• Chaetostoma tachiraense L. P. Schultz, 1944
• Chaetostoma taczanowskii Steindachner, 1882
• Chaetostoma thomsoni Regan, 1904
• Chaetostoma trimaculineum Lujan, Meza-Vargas, Astudillo-Clavijo, Barriga-S. & López-Fernández, 2015[3]
• Chaetostoma vagum Fowler, 1943
• Chaetostoma vasquezi Lasso A. & Provenzano, 1998
• Chaetostoma venezuelae (L. P. Schultz, 1944)
• Chaetostoma yurubiense Ceas & Page, 1996

References

1. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Chaetostoma". FishBase. October 2017 version.
2. van der Sleen, P.; J.S. Albert, eds. (2017). Field Guide to the Fishes of the Amazon, Orinoco, and Guianas. Princeton University Press. pp. 270–271. ISBN 978-0691170749.
3. Lujan, N.K., Meza-Vargas, V., Astudillo-Clavijo, V., Barriga-Salazar, R. & López-Fernández, H. (2015): A Multilocus Molecular Phylogeny for Chaetostoma Clade Genera and Species with a Review of Chaetostoma (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Central Andes. Copeia, 103 (3): 664-701.
4. Urbano-Bonilla, A., & Ballen, G. A. (2020). A new species of Chaetostoma (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Orinoco basin with comments on Amazonian species of the genus in Colombia. Journal of Fish Biology. doi:10.1111/jfb.14640
5. Ardila Rodríguez, C.A. (2013): Chaetostoma floridablancaensis sp. nov. una nueva especie de Choque (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) del Municipio de Floridablanca, Departamento de Santander – Colombia. Universidad Metropolitana de Barranquilla. Barranquilla, Colombia. 24pp.
6. Ballen, G.A., Urbano-Bonilla, A. & Maldonado-Ocampo, J.A. (2016): Description of a new species of the genus Chaetostoma from the Orinoco River drainage with comments on Chaetostoma milesi Fowler, 1941 (Siluriformes: Loricariidae). Zootaxa, 4105 (2): 181–197.
7. Vanessa Meza-Vargas, Bárbara B. Calegari, Nathan K. Lujan, Gustavo A. Ballen, Osvaldo T. Oyakawa, Leandro M. Sousa, Lúcia Rapp Py-Daniel and Roberto E. Reis. 2022. A New Species of Chaetostoma (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) Expands the Distribution of Rubbernose Plecos Eastward into the Lower Amazon Basin of Brazil. Ichthyology & Herpetology. 110(2); 364-377. DOI: 10.1643/i2021068 (29 June 2022)
8. Salcedo, N.J. & Ortega, H. (2015). "A new species of Chaetostoma, an armored catfish (Siluriformes: Loricariidae), from the río Marañón drainage, Amazon basin, Peru" (PDF). Neotropical Ichthyology. 13 (1): 151–156. doi:10.1590/1982-0224-20140073.