Pterygoplichthys pardalis ( Castelnau 1855 )

Orfinger, Alexander Benjamin & Goodding, Daniel Douglas, 2018, The Global Invasion of the Suckermouth Armored Catfish Genus Pterygoplichthys (Siluriformes: Loricariidae): Annotated List of Species, Distributional Summary, and Assessment of Impacts, Zoological Studies 57 (7), pp. 1-16 : 5-6

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.6620/ZS.2018.57-07
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12826116
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CA87D2-FF8A-FFEB-FCB1-F8C5FD0DFD9B
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scientific name	Pterygoplichthys pardalis ( Castelnau 1855 )
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Pterygoplichthys pardalis ( Castelnau 1855) View in CoL

Hypostomus pardalis Castelnau 1855: 42 View in CoL , pl. 20 (fig. 3). Type locality: l’Amazone. Holotype: MNHN a-9574.

Liposarcus varius Cope 1872a: 284 View in CoL . Type locality: The Ambyiacu river , which empties into the Amazon near to Pebas, in Eastern Equador, some distance east of the Napo [ Peru]. Lectotype: ANSP 21931 About ANSP , designated by Fowler (1915:233).

Liposarcus jeanesianus Cope, 1874b: 135 View in CoL . Type locality: Nauta, Peru [= Marañon River, Amazon basin]. Lectotype: ANSP 8241, designated by Weber (1992:27).

Native Distribution: Lower, middle and upper Amazon River basin ( Weber 2003).

Remarks: Redescribed in Weber (1992:10).

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Order	Siluriformes
Family	Loricariidae
Genus	Pterygoplichthys