Panaqolus

Panaqolus
Panaqolus albivermis, sometimes known as L-204
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Family: Loricariidae
Tribe: Ancistrini
Genus: Panaqolus
Isbrücker & Schraml, 2001
Type species
Panaque gnomus
Schaefer & D. J. Stewart, 1993

Panaqolus is a genus of small catfish in the family Loricariidae native to rivers in tropical South America.[1] Its members were formerly thought to belong to a clade of small-sized species in the genus Panaque, until this genus was separated from Panaque in 2001. At times it has been considered a subgenus of Panaque, and the validity of the genus has been disputed by various authors and sources.[2] Pseudoqolus koko was formerly considered to be a member of this genus, although it was reclassified as a member of the currently monotypic genus Pseudoqolus by Nathan K. Lujan, Christian A. Cramer, Raphael Covain, Sonia Fisch-Muller, and Hernán López-Fernández following a 2017 molecular phylogenetic analysis.[3]

  1. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Panaqolus". FishBase. May 2017 version.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Lujan2013 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Lujan, N. K., Cramer, C. A., Covain, R., Fisch-Muller, S., & López-Fernández, H. (2017). Multilocus molecular phylogeny of the ornamental wood-eating catfishes (Siluriformes, Loricariidae, Panaqolus and Panaque) reveals undescribed diversity and parapatric clades. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 109, 321–336. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2016.12.040