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Basilisk Pleco
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Basilisk Pleco

Hypostomus basilisko

Hypostomus basilisko, the basilisk pleco, is a species of armored suckermouth catfish from South America. It is endemic to the Salobra River basin, which is part of the Paraguay River basin in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul in Brazil.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 616428.