| Chaetostoma | |
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| Chaetostoma loborhynchos | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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
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| Synonyms | |
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Lipopterichthys Norman, 1935 | |
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.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Chaetostoma". FishBase. October 2017 version.
- ^ van der Sleen, P.; J.S. Albert, eds. (2017). Field Guide to the Fishes of the Amazon, Orinoco, and Guianas. Princeton University Press. pp. 270–271. ISBN 978-0691170749.