Family Loricariidae Gill 1872 (catfish)

Actinopteri - Siluriformes - Loricariidae

Parent taxon: Loricaroidei according to R. Betancur et al. 2013

See also Jordan 1963, Lundberg 1997, Malabarba and Lundberg 2007 and Nelson et al. 2016

Sister taxa: Astroblepidae, Callichthyidae, Nematogenyidae, Trichomycteridae

Subtaxa: Acanthicus Angistrinae Delturinae Hypoptopomatinae Hypostomus Hypotominae Lithogeneinae Loricariinae Neoplecostominae Taubateia

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Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Brazil (1 collection)

• Pliocene of Venezuela (1)

• Huayquerian of Argentina (1)

• Miocene of Argentina (1), Colombia (3), Peru (4)

• Oligocene of Brazil (1), Peru (3)

• Eocene of Peru (1)

Total: 16 collections each including a single occurrence

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