Check List 10(6): 1528-1530, doi: 10.15560/10.6.1528
First record of Rineloricaria reisi, R. stellata and R. zaina (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Río Uruguay basin in Argentina
expand article infoAdriana Edith Almiron‡, Jorge Rafael Casciotta‡, Lubomir Piálek§, Federico Ruiz Diaz|, Oldrich Říčan§
‡ Museo de La Plata, UNLP, Argentina§ University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic| Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Argentina

Corresponding author: Adriana Almiron ( aalmiron@fcnym.unlp.edu.ar )

© 2017 Adriana Almiron, Jorge Casciotta, Lubomir Piálek, Federico Ruiz Diaz, Oldrich Říčan.
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation: Almirón A, Ruiz Diaz F, Casciotta J, Piálek L, Říčan O (2014) First record of Rineloricaria reisi, R. stellata and R. zaina (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Río Uruguay basin in Argentina. Check List 10(6): 1528-1530. https://doi.org/10.15560/10.6.1528
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Abstract
Rineloricaria reisi, R. stellata, and R. zaina are registered for the first time in freshwaters of Argentina. These three species were found in the Río Uruguay basin in Misiones Province. As a result of these findings, five species of Rineloricaria are found in the Río Uruguay basin in Argentina. A key of Rineloricaria species from that basin is also provided.
Keywords
freshwater fishes; biodiversity; catfish; South America