Rhinolekos

Rhinolekos is a genus of armored catfishes native to South America. This genus is only known from the Tocantizinho River and Paranaiba River drainage in Goiás, Brazil.

Rhinolekos
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Family: Loricariidae
Subfamily: Hypoptopomatinae
Genus: Rhinolekos
Martins & Langeani, 2011
Type species
Rhinolekoa britskii
Martins & Langeani, 2011

Species

There are currently 4 recognized species in this genus:

  • Rhinolekos britskii Martins, Langeani & Costa, 2011 [1]
  • Rhinolekos capetinga Roxo, L. E. Ochoa, G. S. C. Silva & C. de Oliveira, 2015 [2]
  • Rhinolekos garavelloi Martins & Langeani, 2011 [1]
  • Rhinolekos schaeferi Martins & Langeani, 2011 [1]

References
  1. de Oliveira Martins F, Langeani F (2011). "Rhinolekos, a new genus with three new species of Hypoptopomatinae (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from upper rio Paraná" (PDF). Neotropical Ichthyology. 9 (1): 65–78. doi:10.1590/s1679-62252011000100004.
  2. Roxo, F.; Orrego, L.; Silva, G.S.C. & Oliveira, C. (2015). "Rhinolekos capetinga: a new cascudinho species (Loricariidae, Otothyrinae) from the rio Tocantins basin and comments on its ancestral dispersal route". ZooKeys (481): 109–130. doi:10.3897/zookeys.481.8755. PMC 4319103. PMID 25685034.


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