Pareiorhina rudolphi

Pareiorhina rudolphi
Conservation status
Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Siluriformes
Family:	Loricariidae
Genus:	Pareiorhina
Species:	P. rudolphi
Binomial name
Pareiorhina rudolphi (A. Miranda-Ribeiro, 1911)
Synonyms
Rhinelepis rudolphi Miranda Ribeiro, 1911

Pareiorhina rudolphi is a species of armored catfish endemic to Brazil where it occurs in the Paraíba do Sul River near Lorena, São Paulo State, Brazil.[2] This species grows to a length of 4.5 centimetres (1.8 in) TL.

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of Rodolpho von Ihering (1883-1939), a zoologist and fish culturist, who first described this catfish as Plecostomus (Rhinelepis) microps in 1907, but used a preoccupied name (Plecostomus microps Steindachner 1876) and so it was renamed.[3]

References

• Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Pareiorhina rudolphi". FishBase. December 2011 version.

1. Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio) (2022). "Pareiorhina rudolphi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (in Portuguese). 2022: e.T186341A1811586. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-1.RLTS.T186341A1811586.pt. Retrieved 26 May 2023.
2. Ferraris, Carl J. Jr. (2007). "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1418: 1–628. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1418.1.1.
3. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order SILURIFORMES: Family LORICARIIDAE: Subfamilies LITHOGENINAE, HYPOPTOPOMINAE and LORICARIINAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 7 November 2021.