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Cryptancistrus
Cryptancistrus similis is a species of catfish in the family Loricariidae and the only member of the monotypic genus Cryptancistrus. It is a freshwater fish native to South America, where it occurs in the upper Paru de Oeste River in Brazil. The species reaches 6.2 cm (2.4 inches) in standard length. It was described in 2018 by Sonia Fisch-Muller, Jan Mol (of Anton de Kom University of Suriname), and Raphael Covain (of the University of Geneva)...
1 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 1 known species
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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 871192.