Gymnotocinclus canoeiro

Species of catfish

Gymnotocinclus canoeiro

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Actinopterygii
Order:  | Siluriformes
Family:  | Loricariidae
Genus:  | Gymnotocinclus
Species:  |

G. canoeiro

Binomial name
Gymnotocinclus canoeiro

Roxo, Silva, Ochoa & Zawadzki, 2017

Gymnotocinclus canoeiro is a species of catfish in the family Loricariidae. It is native to South America, where it occurs in the Tocantins River basin in Brazil. The species reaches at least 6.2 cm (2.4 inches) in standard length. It was described in 2017 by Fábio F. Roxo (of São Paulo State University), Gabriel S. C. Silva (also of São Paulo State University), Luz Eneida Ochoa (of the University of São Paulo), and Cláudio Henrique Zawadzki (of the State University of Maringá). Its specific name, canoeiro, refers to the Avá-Canoeiro people, speakers of the Avá-Canoeiro language, who inhabit the upper Tocantins basin.[1]

## References

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1. ^ Roxo, Fábio & Silva, Gabriel & Ochoa, Luz & Zawadzki, Cláudio. (2017). Description of a new species of Gymnotocinclus from the rio Tocantins basin with phylogenetic analysis of the subfamily Hypoptopomatinae (Siluriformes: Loricariidae). Zootaxa. 4268. 337. 10.11646/zootaxa.4268.3.2.

Taxon identifiers

Gymnotocinclus canoeiro|

* Wikidata: Q30044282
* Wikispecies: Gymnotocinclus canoeiro
* GBIF: 9500348
* NCBI: 2017748
* Open Tree of Life: 7065751

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