Cordylancistrus santarosensis • Loricariidae • Cat-eLog

Cat-eLog Data Sheet
Scientific Name	**Cordylancistrus santarosensis** Tan & Armbruster, 2012
Common Name(s)	None
Type Locality	Ecuador, El Oro Province, Pacific Ocean drainage, Río Santa Rosa, 13.5 km S of Santa Rosa on Hwy 92, -3.56944°, -79.94291°
Etymology	(Greek)Kordyle = Club, swelling + (Greek) agkistron = hook, referring to its wide head. Named for the type locality, the Río Santa Rosa.
Species Information
Size	71mm (2.8") SL. Find near, nearer or same sized spp.
Identification	This species can be distinguished from all other members of the Chaetostoma group by having plates on the tip of the snout (except for a central region at the extreme anterior edge), but lacking plates laterally on the head. This snout plating condition is intermediate between the fully plated snout of other Cordylancistrus and the unplated snout of Chaetostoma.
Habitat Information
Distribution	Known only from the type locality in the Río Santa Rosa (Gulf of Guayaquil drainage) near the southern coast of Ecuador. Ecuador Pacific Coast Rivers, Santa Rosa (click on these areas to find other species found there) (Click the map-icon to show/hide map of species distribution)
Husbandry Information
Breeding	Unreported.
Further Information
References	Zootaxa 3243: 52–58
Registered Keepers	None.
Breeding Reports	None.
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Last Update	2012 Mar 24 14:12 (species record created: 2012 Mar 21 15:19)

Cat-eLog Data Sheet

Cordylancistrus santarosensis Tan & Armbruster, 2012

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Ecuador, El Oro Province, Pacific Ocean drainage, Río Santa Rosa, 13.5 km S of Santa Rosa on Hwy 92, -3.56944°, -79.94291°

Etymology

(Greek)Kordyle = Club, swelling + (Greek) agkistron = hook, referring to its wide head. Named for the type locality, the Río Santa Rosa.

Species Information

Size

71mm (2.8") SL. Find near, nearer or same sized spp.

Identification

This species can be distinguished from all other members of the Chaetostoma group by having plates on the tip of the snout (except for a central region at the extreme anterior edge), but lacking plates laterally on the head. This snout plating condition is intermediate between the fully plated snout of other Cordylancistrus and the unplated snout of Chaetostoma.

Habitat Information

Distribution

Known only from the type locality in the Río Santa Rosa (Gulf of Guayaquil drainage) near the southern coast of Ecuador.
Ecuador Pacific Coast Rivers, Santa Rosa (click on these areas to find other species found there)