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Hypostominae 
Taxonomic Serial No.: 679391

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Subfamily  
  Synonym(s):    
  Common Name(s): armored catfishes [English]
  
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2005   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassActinopterygii  – ray-finned fishes, spiny rayed fishes, poisson épineux, poissons à nageoires rayonnées  
                      ClassTeleostei   
                         SuperorderOstariophysi   
                            OrderSiluriformes  – silures, catfishes  
                               FamilyLoricariidae Rafinesque, 1815 – suckermouth armored catfishes, suckermouth catfishes, loricariidés, plecóstomas, armored catfishes  
                                  SubfamilyHypostominae  – armored catfishes  
    Direct Children:  
                                     GenusAcanthicus Agassiz in Spix and Agassiz, 1829  
                                     GenusAncistrus Kner, 1854 – antenna armored catfish 
                                     GenusBaryancistrus Rapp Py-Daniel, 1989  
                                     GenusChaetostoma Tschudi, 1846  
                                     GenusCordylancistrus Isbrücker, 1980  
                                     GenusCorymbophanes Eigenmann, 1909  
                                     GenusDekeyseria Rapp Py-Daniel, 1985  
                                     GenusDolichancistrus Isbrücker, 1980  
                                     GenusExastilithoxus Isbrücker and Nijssen in Isbrücker, 1979  
                                     GenusGlyptoperichthys Weber, 1991  
                                     GenusHemiancistrus Bleeker, 1862  
                                     GenusHopliancistrus Isbrücker and Nijssen, 1989  
                                     GenusHypancistrus Isbrücker and Nijssen, 1991  
                                     GenusHypostomus Lacepède, 1803 – suckermouth catfishes 
                                     GenusLasiancistrus Regan, 1904  
                                     GenusLeporacanthicus Isbrücker and Nijssen, 1989  
                                     GenusLeptoancistrus Meek and Hildebrand, 1916  
                                     GenusLithoxus Eigenmann, 1910  
                                     GenusMegalancistrus Isbrücker, 1980  
                                     GenusNeblinichthys Ferraris, Isbrücker and Nijssen, 1986  
                                     GenusPanaque Eigenmann and Eigenmann, 1889  
                                     GenusParancistrus Bleeker, 1862  
                                     GenusPeckoltia Miranda Ribeiro, 1912  
                                     GenusPogonopoma Regan, 1904  
                                     GenusPseudacanthicus Bleeker, 1862  
                                     GenusPseudancistrus Bleeker, 1862  
                                     GenusPseudolithoxus Isbrücker and Werner in Isbrücker, Seidel, Michels, Schraml and Werner, 2001  
                                     GenusPseudorinelepis Bleeker, 1862  
                                     GenusPterygoplichthys Gill, 1858  
                                     GenusRhinelepis Agassiz in Spix and Agassiz, 1829  
                                     GenusSpectracanthicus Nijssen and Isbrücker, 1987  
       

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  Author(s)/Editor(s): Weber, Claude / Reis, Roberto E., Sven O. Kullander, and Carl J. Ferraris, Jr., eds.   
  Publication Date: 2003   
  Article/Chapter Title: Subfamily Hypostominae (Armored catfishes)   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Check List of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America   
  Page(s): 351-372   
  Publisher: Edipucrs   
  Publication Place: Porto Alegre, Brazil   
  ISBN/ISSN: 85-7430-361-5   
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  Reference for: Hypostominae, armored catfishes [English]   
       

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