Chinchaysuyoa ortegai

Chinchaysuyoa ortegai
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Siluriformes
Family:	Ariidae
Genus:	Chinchaysuyoa
Species:	C. ortegai
Binomial name
	Chinchaysuyoa ortegai; Marceniuk, Marchena, Oliveira, and Betancur-R, 2019

Chinchaysuyoa ortegai is a species of catfish in the family Ariidae. It is endemic to freshwater bodies in northern Peru. Specimens of this species were formerly classified as Hexanematichthys henni (now C. labiata) until they were found to actually represent a new species in the genus Chinchaysuyoa.^[1]

References

^ Alexandre Pires Marceniuk; José Marchena Dioses; Claudio Oliveira; Ricardo Betancur-Rodríguez (December 2018). "Chinchaysuyoa, a new genus of the fish family Ariidae (Siluriformes), with a redescription of Chinchaysuyoa labiata from Ecuador and a new species description from Peru". Zootaxa. 4551 (3): 361–378. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4551.3.5. PMID 30790813 – via ResearchGate.

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[1] Alexandre Pires Marceniuk; José Marchena Dioses; Claudio Oliveira; Ricardo Betancur-Rodríguez (December 2018). "Chinchaysuyoa, a new genus of the fish family Ariidae (Siluriformes), with a redescription of Chinchaysuyoa labiata from Ecuador and a new species description from Peru". Zootaxa. 4551 (3): 361–378. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4551.3.5. PMID 30790813 – via ResearchGate.

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