- Animals
- ›Chordates
- ›Vertebrates
- ›Ray-finned Fishes
- ›Carps, Characins, Catfishes and Allies
- ›Catfishes
- ›Loricarioidei
- ›Armored Catfishes
- ›Cascudinhos
- ›Neoplecostomus
Neoplecostomus bandeirante
Neoplecostomus bandeirante is a species of catfish in the family Loricariidae. It is native to South America, where it occurs in the Paraitinguinha River, which is a tributary of the Tietê River, in the vicinity of Salesópolis in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The species reaches 11 cm (4.3 inches) in standard length. Its specific name, bandeirante, refers to the bandeirantes of colonial Brazil.
From the article Neoplecostomus bandeirante on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Neoplecostomus bandeirante can be told apart from all the other species in its genus by having keels on each series of plates on its flanks. The dorsal fin is supported by a single spine and 7 soft rays while the anal fin contains 6 soft rays. This species has a elongate body shape and it reaches a standard length of 11 cm (4.3 in).
Range & habitat
Neoplecostomus bandeirante is endemic to Brazil where it know only from its type locality. Neoplecostomus catfishes occur in shallow freshwater habitats, normally less than 1 m (3 ft 3 in) in depth, with rocky bottoms and fast currents. These are usually the headwater streams of river systems.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
In human culture
Neoplecostomus bandeirante is classified within the genus Neoplecostomus, this name prefixes neo-, for "new" onto plecostomus, as this genus was proposed as a subgenus of Plecostomus, now known as Hypostomus and classified in the subfamily Hypostominae. The specific name, bandeirante, is derived from the bandeirantes, "flag-bearer" in Portuguese, the frontiersmen, explorers, settlers, slavers and prospectors in early colonial Brazil who expanded Portuguese rule over the country.
Wikipedia: “Etymology”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Neoplecostomus bandeirante in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
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 616637.