Chaetostoma

Chaetostoma also known as the Bristlemouths is a genus of suckermouth armored catfishes native to South America with one species C. fischeri extending into Panama.[1] Most species inhabit flowing rivers in the lower Andes and its foothills.[2] Some species are kept in unheated aquaria.

Chaetostoma
Chaetostoma loborhynchos
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Family: Loricariidae
Tribe: Ancistrini
Genus: Chaetostoma
Tschudi, 1846
Type species
Chaetostoma loborhynchos
Tschudi 1846
Synonyms

Lipopterichthys Norman, 1935
Loraxichthys Salcedo, 2013

Species
Chaetostoma anomalum
Chaetostoma breve
Chaetostoma microps

There are currently 48 recognized species in this genus:

  • Chaetostoma aburrensis (Posada, 1909)
  • Chaetostoma anale (Fowler, 1943)
  • Chaetostoma anomalum Regan, 1903
  • Chaetostoma bifurcum Lujan, Meza-Vargas, Astudillo-Clavijo, Barriga-S. & López-Fernández, 2015[3]
  • Chaetostoma branickii Steindachner, 1881
  • Chaetostoma breve Regan, 1904[3]
  • Chaetostoma brevilabiatum Dahl, 1942
  • Chaetostoma carrioni (Norman, 1935)[3]
  • Chaetostoma changae Salcedo, 2006
  • Chaetostoma daidalmatos Salcedo, 2006
  • Chaetostoma dermorhynchum Boulenger, 1887[3]
  • Chaetostoma dorsale C. H. Eigenmann, 1922
  • Chaetostoma dupouii Fernández-Yépez, 1945
  • Chaetostoma fischeri Steindachner, 1879
  • Chaetostoma floridablancaensis Ardila Rodríguez, 2013[4]
  • Chaetostoma formosae Ballen, 2011
  • Chaetostoma guairense Steindachner, 1881
  • Chaetostoma jegui Rapp Py-Daniel, 1991
  • Chaetostoma joropo Ballen, Urbano-Bonilla & Maldonado-Ocampo, 2016[5]
  • Chaetostoma lepturum Regan, 1912
  • Chaetostoma leucomelas C. H. Eigenmann, 1918
  • Chaetostoma lexa (Salcedo, 2013)[3]
  • Chaetostoma lineopunctatum C. H. Eigenmann & W. R. Allen, 1942
  • Chaetostoma loborhynchos Tschudi, 1846
  • Chaetostoma machiquense Fernández-Yépez & Martín Salazar, 1953
  • Chaetostoma marginatum Regan, 1904
  • Chaetostoma marmorescens C. H. Eigenmann & W. R. Allen, 1942
  • Chaetostoma microps Günther, 1864[3]
  • Chaetostoma milesi Fowler, 1941
  • Chaetostoma niveum Fowler, 1944
  • Chaetostoma nudirostre Lütken, 1874
  • Chaetostoma palmeri Regan, 1912
  • Chaetostoma patiae Fowler, 1945
  • Chaetostoma paucispinis Regan, 1912
  • Chaetostoma pearsei C. H. Eigenmann, 1920
  • Chaetostoma platyrhynchus Fowler, 1943[5]
  • Chaetostoma sovichthys L. P. Schultz, 1944
  • Chaetostoma spondylus Salcedo & H. Ortega, 2015[6]
  • Chaetostoma stannii Lütken, 1874
  • Chaetostoma stroumpoulos Salcedo, 2006
  • Chaetostoma tachiraense L. P. Schultz, 1944
  • Chaetostoma taczanowskii Steindachner, 1882
  • Chaetostoma thomsoni Regan, 1904
  • Chaetostoma trimaculineum Lujan, Meza-Vargas, Astudillo-Clavijo, Barriga-S. & López-Fernández, 2015[3]
  • Chaetostoma vagum Fowler, 1943
  • Chaetostoma vasquezi Lasso A. & Provenzano, 1998
  • Chaetostoma venezuelae (L. P. Schultz, 1944)
  • Chaetostoma yurubiense Ceas & Page, 1996

References
  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2017). Species of Chaetostoma in FishBase. October 2017 version.
  2. van der Sleen, P.; J.S. Albert, eds. (2017). Field Guide to the Fishes of the Amazon, Orinoco, and Guianas. Princeton University Press. pp. 270–271. ISBN 978-0691170749.
  3. Lujan, N.K., Meza-Vargas, V., Astudillo-Clavijo, V., Barriga-Salazar, R. & López-Fernández, H. (2015): A Multilocus Molecular Phylogeny for Chaetostoma Clade Genera and Species with a Review of Chaetostoma (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Central Andes. Copeia, 103 (3): 664-701.
  4. Ardila Rodríguez, C.A. (2013): Chaetostoma floridablancaensis sp. nov. una nueva especie de Choque (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) del Municipio de Floridablanca, Departamento de Santander – Colombia. Universidad Metropolitana de Barranquilla. Barranquilla, Colombia. 24pp.
  5. Ballen, G.A., Urbano-Bonilla, A. & Maldonado-Ocampo, J.A. (2016): Description of a new species of the genus Chaetostoma from the Orinoco River drainage with comments on Chaetostoma milesi Fowler, 1941 (Siluriformes: Loricariidae). Zootaxa, 4105 (2): 181–197.
  6. Salcedo, N.J. & Ortega, H. (2015). "A new species of Chaetostoma, an armored catfish (Siluriformes: Loricariidae), from the río Marañón drainage, Amazon basin, Peru" (PDF). Neotropical Ichthyology. 13 (1): 151–156. doi:10.1590/1982-0224-20140073.
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