Hypostominae is a subfamily of catfish

Catfish

Catfishes are a diverse group of ray-finned fish. Named for their prominent barbels, which resemble a cat's whiskers, catfish range in size and behavior from the heaviest and longest, the Mekong giant catfish from Southeast Asia and the second longest, the wels catfish of Eurasia, to detritivores...

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Order (biology)

In scientific classification used in biology, the order is# a taxonomic rank used in the classification of organisms. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, family, genus, and species, with order fitting in between class and family...

 Siluriformes) of the family

Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 Loricariidae

Loricariidae

Loricariidae is the largest family of catfish , with almost 700 species and new species being described each year. Loricariids originate from fresh water habitats of Costa Rica, Panama, and tropical and subtropical South America. These fish are noted for the bony plates covering their bodies and...

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Studies conducted with representatives of some genera of Hypostominae showed that within this
group, the diploid number ranges from 2n = 52 to 2n = 80. However, the supposed wide karyotypic diversity that the family Loricariidae or the subfamily Hypostominae
would present is almost exclusively restricted to the genus Hypostomus

Hypostomus

Hypostomus is the largest genus of the armored catfish family Loricariidae. It includes the popular freshwater aquarium fish Plecostomus...

, and the species from the other genera had a conserved diploid number.

Taxonomy

• Ancistrini
  Ancistrini
  Ancistrini is a tribe of catfishes of the family Loricariidae.-Taxonomy:Ancistrini has previously been considered a loricariid subfamily. However, it was realized that the subfamily Hypostominae would be paraphyletic if Ancistrinae continued to be recognized...
  
  
  • Acanthicus
    Acanthicus
    Acanthicus is a genus of catfishes of the family Loricariidae. It includes two species, A. adonis and A. hystrix....
    
    
  • Ancistrus
    Ancistrus
    Ancistrus is a genus of freshwater fish in the family Loricariidae of order Siluriformes. Fish of this genus are commonly known as the bushynose or bristlenose plecos.-Taxonomy:The type species is Ancistrus cirrhosus...
    
    
  • Baryancistrus
    Baryancistrus
    Baryancistrus is a genus of freshwater Loricariid catfish. They inhabit regions of the Amazon river in countries such as Brazil and Venezuela....
    
    
  • Chaetostoma
    Chaetostoma
    Chaetostoma is a genus of fishes. Species include Chaetostoma thomsoni, which is native to fast-moving mountain streams of Colombia and Venezuela, where it is known in Spanish as Carachama. Some species are kept in unheated aquaria.Other species include:*Chaetostoma carrioni-External links:*...
    
    
  • Cordylancistrus
    Cordylancistrus
    Cordylancistrus is a genus of the family Loricariidae. It is much the same as Chaetostoma. The few differences are a wider head, longer cheek odontodes, and plates on the snout. Cordylancistrus can be found in rivers and streams high in the Andes, from Venezuela to Ecuador....
    
    
  • Dekeyseria
    Dekeyseria
    Dekeyseria is a genus of catfishes of the family Loricariidae. It includes six species.-Species:*Dekeyseria amazonica - Rapp Py-Daniel, 1985*Dekeyseria brachyura - *Dekeyseria niveata -...
    
    
  • Dolichancistrus
  • Exastilithoxus
    Exastilithoxus
    Exastilithoxus is a small genus of catfish of the family Loricariidae. It includes two species, E. fimbriatus and E. hoedemani.-Distribution and habitat:...
    
    
  • Hemiancistrus
    Hemiancistrus
    Hemiancistrus is a genus of small South American armored suckermouth catfishes. The taxonomy of this genus is complex and unclear, and major work has to be done. Many of these fish are popular aquarium fish.-Taxonomy:...
    
    
  • Hopliancistrus
  • Hypancistrus
    Hypancistrus
    Hypancistrus is a genus of Loricariid catfish originating from the Amazon basin in South America. Unlike many of the other Loricariids, however, some Hypancistrus species are more carnivorous and enjoy meat in their diet...
    
    
  • Lasiancistrus
    Lasiancistrus
    Lasiancistrus is a genus of catfishes of the family Loricariidae. It includes six species, L. caucanus, L. guacharote, L. heteracanthus, L. saetiger, L. schomburgkii, and L. tentaculatus.-Taxonomy:...
    
    
  • Leporacanthicus
    Leporacanthicus
    Leporacanthicus is a genus of catfishes of the family Loricariidae. It includes four species, L. galaxias, L. heterodon, L. joselimai, and L. triactis.-Distribution:...
    
    
  • Leptoancistrus
  • Lithoxus
    Lithoxus
    Lithoxus is a genus of catfishes of the family Loricariidae. It includes eight species, L. boujardi, L. bovallii, L. jantjae, L. lithoides, L. pallidimaculatus, L. planquettei, L. stocki, and L. surinamensis.-Taxonomy:Lithoxus is supported as a monophyletic sister to Exastilithoxus...
    
    
  • Megalancistrus
    Megalancistrus
    Megalancistrus is a genus of catfishes of the family Loricariidae. It includes two species, M. barrae and M. parananus.-Distribution:...
    
    
  • Neblinichthys
    Neblinichthys
    Neblinichthys is a small genus of catfish of the family Loricariidae. It includes two species, N. pilosus and N. yaravi.-Taxonomy:Neblinichthys was described by Ferraris, Isbrücker, and Nijssen in 1986...
    
    
  • Panaque
    Panaque
    The genus Panaque contains a small number of small to medium sized South American armoured catfishes that are notable for being among the very few vertebrates that feed extensively on wood. In addition, algae and aufwuchs are an important part of the diet, and they use their rasping teeth to...
    
    
  • Parancistrus
    Parancistrus
    Parancistrus is a small genus of catfishes of the family Loricariidae. It includes two species, P. aurantiacus and P. nudiventris.-Taxonomy:...
    
    
  • Peckoltia
    Peckoltia
    Peckoltia is a genus of small South American armored suckermouth catfishes. Many of these fish are popular aquarium fish.-Taxonomy:Peckoltia is a basal genus within the tribe Ancistrini of the subfamily Hypostominae. This genus is paraphyletic...
    
    
  • Pseudacanthicus
    Pseudacanthicus
    Pseudacanthicus is a genus of catfishes of the family Loricariidae. It includes five formally described species, P. fordii, P. histrix, P. leopardus, P. serratus, and P. spinosus. There are also several undescribed species from Peru to Brazil...
    
    
  • Pseudancistrus
    Pseudancistrus
    Pseudancistrus is a genus of catfishes of the family Loricariidae.-Taxonomy:Pseudancistrus is a genus in the tribe Ancistrini of the subfamily Hypostominae. It was described by Pieter Bleeker in 1862, and redescribed by Jonathan Armbruster in 2004...
    
    
  • Pseudolithoxus
    Pseudolithoxus
    Pseudolithoxus is a genus of catfishes of the family Loricariidae. It includes five species, P. anthrax, P. dumus, P. kelsorum, P. nicoi, and P. tigris, previously described as the Lasiancistrus anthrax group....
    
    
  • Spectracanthicus
    Spectracanthicus
    Spectracanthicus is a small genus of catfish of the family Loricariidae. It includes two species, S. murinus and S. punctatissimus.-Taxonomy:...
    
    
• Corymbophanini
  • Corymbophanes
    Corymbophanes
    Corymbophanes is a genus of catfish from the family Loricariidae. Corymbophanes is the only genus within the tribe Corymbophanini.-Taxonomy:...
    
    
• Hypostomini
  • Hypostomus
    Hypostomus
    Hypostomus is the largest genus of the armored catfish family Loricariidae. It includes the popular freshwater aquarium fish Plecostomus...
    
    
• Pterygoplichthyini
  Pterygoplichthyini
  Pterygoplichthyini is a tribe of catfishes of the family Loricariidae. It includes two genera, Pterygoplichthys and the currently undescribed genus referred to as the Hemiancistrus annectens group. This group was earlier misspelled as Pterygoplichthini...
  
  
  • Hemiancistrus annectens group
  • Pterygoplichthys
    Pterygoplichthys
    Pterygoplichthys is a genus of the armored catfish family Loricariidae. These fish are commonly known as sailfin armoured catfish or sailfin plecs.-Taxonomy:This genus was described in 1858 by Theodore Nicholas Gill...
    
    
• Rhinelepini
  Rhinelepini
  Rhinelepini is a tribe of armored suckermouth catfish family within the Hypostominae subfamily.-Taxonomy:This tribe is a well diagnosed monophyletic group currently containing three genera: Pogonopoma, Pseudorinelepis, and Rhinelepis. When the tribe was first described, Pogonopomoides was a valid...
  
  
  • Pogonopoma
    Pogonopoma
    Pogonopoma is a genus of South American catfish of the family Loricariidae. It includes three species, P. obscurum, P. parahybae, and P. wertheimeri.-Taxonomy:...
    
    
  • Pseudorinelepis
    Pseudorinelepis
    Pseudorinelepis genibarbis is a species of the Hypostominae subfamily of the Loricariidae catfish family. P. genibarbis is distributed throughout the Upper Amazon River basin.-Taxonomy:...
    
    
  • Rhinelepis
    Rhinelepis
    Rhinelepis is a genus of South American catfish of the family Loricariidae. It contains two species, R. aspera and R. strigosa. It is one of three genera in the tribe Rhinelepini.-Distribution:...