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suckermouth armoured catfish

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Also known as: Loricariidae

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In ostariophysan: Annotated classification
Family Loricariidae (suckermouth armoured catfishes) Sucking mouth; 3 or 4 rows of bony scutes. Herbivorous aquarium fishes. Central and South America. About 42 genera, 230 species. Family Scoloplacidae (spiny dwarf catfishes) Body with 2 bilateral series of teethlike-bearing plates, 1 midventral series of plates. Maximum length about…
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