Check List 9(5): 1113-1116, doi: 10.15560/9.5.1113
New distribution record for the threatened armoured suckermouth catfish Pareiorhaphis garbei (Ihering, 1911) (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) in São João river basin, Rio de Janeiro, southeastern Brazil
expand article infoGabriela Farias Maia‡, Roney Emanuel Costa de Paiva‡, Aline Barbosa dos Santos‡, Henrique Lazzarotto§, Sergio Maia Queiroz Lima‡
‡ Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil§ Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Corresponding author: Sergio Lima ( smaialima@gmail.com )

© 2017 Gabriela Maia, Roney Paiva, Aline Santos, Henrique Lazzarotto, Sergio Lima.
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Citation: Maia Queiroz Lima S, Maia G, Paiva R, Lazzarotto H, Santos A (2013) New distribution record for the threatened armoured suckermouth catfish Pareiorhaphis garbei (Ihering, 1911) (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) in São João river basin, Rio de Janeiro, southeastern Brazil. Check List 9(5): 1113-1116. https://doi.org/10.15560/9.5.1113
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Abstract
The present study records the first occurrence of the threatened armoured suckermouth catfish Pareiorhaphis garbei (Ihering, 1911) in São João river basin and also its presence in four conservation units in the coastal basins of Serra dos Órgãos mountains, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. In São João river basin, P. garbei was only captured in a single locality at 111 m a.s.l., consisting in the lower registered altitude for the species, previously found in high altitudes, usually above 800m.
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