Description

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Common Names

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Catfish , English , Uruguay

Cascudo , Portuguese (Latin) , Brazil

Vieja de agua , Spanish , Uruguay

Taxonomic Hierarchy

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Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Siluriformes

Family: Loricariidae

Genus: Hypostomus

Species: Hypostomus auroguttatus Kner, 1854

Climate Zone

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Tropical

Location

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Biology

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Facultative air-breathing in the genus (Ref. 126274); Found in big and rapid waters with rocky bottom.

Habitat

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demersal