Panaqolus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Siluriformes
- Family
- Loricariidae
- Genus
- Panaqolus
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Panaqolus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Panaqolus
Panaqolus is a genus of small catfish in the family Loricariidae native to rivers in tropical South America. Its members were formerly thought to belong to a clade of small-sized species in the genus Panaque, until this genus was separated from Panaque in 2001. At times it has been considered a subgenus of Panaque, and the validity of the genus has been disputed by various authors and sources. Pseudoqolus koko was formerly considered to be a member of this genus, although it was reclassified as a member of the currently monotypic genus Pseudoqolus by Nathan K. Lujan, Christian A. Cramer, Raphael Covain, Sonia Fisch-Muller, and Hernán López-Fernández following a 2017 molecular phylogenetic analysis.
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Acanthicus
- Ancistomus
- Ancistrus
- Andeancistrus
- Aphanotorulus
- Araichthys
- Avalithoxus
- Baryancistrus
- Chaetostoma
- Cordylancistrus
- Corymbophanes
- Cryptancistrus
- Dekeyseria
- Dolichancistrus
- Exastilithoxus
- Guyanancistrus
- Hemiancistrus
- Hopliancistrus
- Hypancistrus
- Hypostomus
- Isorineloricaria
- Lasiancistrus
- Leporacanthicus
- Leptoancistrus
- Lithoxancistrus
- Lithoxus
- Megalancistrus
- Neblinichthys
- Panaqolus
- Panaque
- Paralithoxus
- Parancistrus
- Paulasquama
- Peckoltia
- Peckoltichthys
- Pseudacanthicus
- Pseudancistrus
- Pseudolithoxus
- Pseudoqolus
- Pterygoplichthys
- Scobinancistrus
- Soromonichthys
- Spectracanthicus
- Transancistrus
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