Parotocinclus prata
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Species of fish
| Parotocinclus prata | |
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| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Loricariidae |
| Genus: | Parotocinclus |
| Species: | P. prata
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| Binomial name | |
| Parotocinclus prata Ribeiro, Melo and Pereira, 2002
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Parotocinclus prata[1] is a species of catfish in the family Loricariidae. It is native to South America, where it occurs in the Da Prata River, which is part of the São Francisco River basin in Brazil. It is most often found either in clear creeks, surrounded by dense forest, with a substrate of rocks, pebbles, sand and occasionally leaf litter, or in larger water bodies with scarce marginal vegetation and an exclusively sandy substrate. The species is known to feed on cyanobacteria, diatoms, green algae, and other organic matter. It reaches 5 cm (2 inches) SL.[2]
References
[edit ]- ^ "ITIS - Report: Parotocinclus prata". www.itis.gov. Retrieved 2022年03月03日.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2021). "Parotocinclus prata". FishBase.
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