Chaetostoma

Chaetostoma, also known as the bristlemouth catfish, is a genus of suckermouth armored catfishes native to South America with one species, C. fischeri, extending into Panama.^[1] Most species inhabit flowing rivers in the lower Andes and its foothills.^[2] Some species are kept in unheated aquaria.

Chaetostoma
Chaetostoma loborhynchos
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Siluriformes
Family:	Loricariidae
Subfamily:	Hypostominae
Tribe:	Ancistrini
Genus:	Chaetostoma Tschudi, 1846
Type species
Chaetostoma loborhynchos Tschudi 1846
Synonyms
Lipopterichthys Norman, 1935 Loraxichthys Salcedo, 2013

Species

Chaetostoma anomalum

Chaetostoma breve

Chaetostoma microps

These are the currently recognized species in this genus:

• Chaetostoma aburrensis (Posada, 1909)
• Chaetostoma anale (Fowler, 1943)
• Chaetostoma anomalum Regan, 1903
• Chaetostoma bifurcum Lujan, Meza-Vargas, Astudillo-Clavijo, Barriga-S. & López-Fernández, 2015^[3]
• Chaetostoma branickii Steindachner, 1881
• Chaetostoma breve Regan, 1904^[3]
• Chaetostoma brevilabiatum Dahl, 1942
• Chaetostoma carrioni (Norman, 1935)^[3]
• Chaetostoma changae Salcedo, 2006
• Chaetostoma chimu Urbano-Bonilla & Ballen, 2020^[4]
• Chaetostoma daidalmatos Salcedo, 2006
• Chaetostoma dermorhynchum Boulenger, 1887^[3]
• Chaetostoma dorsale C. H. Eigenmann, 1922
• Chaetostoma dupouii Fernández-Yépez, 1945
• Chaetostoma fischeri Steindachner, 1879
• Chaetostoma floridablancaensis Ardila Rodríguez, 2013^[5]
• Chaetostoma formosae Ballen, 2011
• Chaetostoma guairense Steindachner, 1881
• Chaetostoma jegui Rapp Py-Daniel, 1991
• Chaetostoma joropo Ballen, Urbano-Bonilla & Maldonado-Ocampo, 2016^[6]
• Chaetostoma lepturum Regan, 1912
• Chaetostoma leucomelas C. H. Eigenmann, 1918
• Chaetostoma lexa (Salcedo, 2013)^[3]
• Chaetostoma lineopunctatum C. H. Eigenmann & W. R. Allen, 1942
• Chaetostoma loborhynchos Tschudi, 1846
• Chaetostoma machiquense Fernández-Yépez & Martín Salazar, 1953
• Chaetostoma marginatum Regan, 1904
• Chaetostoma marmorescens C. H. Eigenmann & W. R. Allen, 1942
• Chaetostoma microps Günther, 1864^[3]
• Chaetostoma milesi Fowler, 1941
• Chaetostoma niveum Fowler, 1944
• Chaetostoma nudirostre Lütken, 1874

• Chaetostoma orientale Meza-Vargas, Calegari, Lujan, Ballen, Oyakawa, Sousa, Rapp Py-Daniel and Reis, 2022^[7]

• Chaetostoma palmeri Regan, 1912
• Chaetostoma patiae Fowler, 1945
• Chaetostoma paucispinis Regan, 1912
• Chaetostoma pearsei C. H. Eigenmann, 1920
• Chaetostoma platyrhynchus Fowler, 1943^[6]
• Chaetostoma sovichthys L. P. Schultz, 1944
• Chaetostoma spondylus Salcedo & H. Ortega, 2015^[8]
• Chaetostoma stannii Lütken, 1874
• Chaetostoma stroumpoulos Salcedo, 2006
• Chaetostoma tachiraense L. P. Schultz, 1944
• Chaetostoma taczanowskii Steindachner, 1882
• Chaetostoma thomsoni Regan, 1904
• Chaetostoma trimaculineum Lujan, Meza-Vargas, Astudillo-Clavijo, Barriga-S. & López-Fernández, 2015^[3]
• Chaetostoma vagum Fowler, 1943
• Chaetostoma vasquezi Lasso A. & Provenzano, 1998
• Chaetostoma venezuelae (L. P. Schultz, 1944)
• Chaetostoma yurubiense Ceas & Page, 1996