page_title: Chaetostoma
section_title: Species
hierarchical_section_title: Chaetostoma / Species
caption_attribution_description: Chaetostoma anomalum
context_page_description: Chaetostoma also known as the Bristlemouths is a genus of suckermouth armored catfishes native to South America with one species C. fischeri extending into Panama. Most species inhabit flowing rivers in the lower Andes and its foothills. Some species are kept in unheated aquaria.
context_section_description: There are currently 48 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
  Chaetostoma branickii Steindachner, 1881
  Chaetostoma breve Regan, 1904
  Chaetostoma brevilabiatum Dahl, 1942
  Chaetostoma carrioni (Norman, 1935)
  Chaetostoma changae Salcedo, 2006
  Chaetostoma daidalmatos Salcedo, 2006
  Chaetostoma dermorhynchum Boulenger, 1887
  Chaetostoma dorsale C. H. Eigenmann, 1922
  Chaetostoma dupouii Fernández-Yépez, 1945
  Chaetostoma fischeri Steindachner, 1879
  Chaetostoma floridablancaensis Ardila Rodríguez, 2013
  Chaetostoma formosae Ballen, 2011
  Chaetostoma guairense Steindachner, 1881
  Chaetostoma jegui Rapp Py-Daniel, 1991
  Chaetostoma joropo Ballen, Urbano-Bonilla & Maldonado-Ocampo, 2016
  Chaetostoma lepturum Regan, 1912
  Chaetostoma leucomelas C. H. Eigenmann, 1918
  Chaetostoma lexa (Salcedo, 2013)
  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
  Chaetostoma milesi Fowler, 1941
  Chaetostoma niveum Fowler, 1944
  Chaetostoma nudirostre Lütken, 1874
  Chaetostoma palmeri Regan, 1912
  Chaetostoma patiae Fowler, 1945
  Chaetostoma paucispinis Regan, 1912
  Chaetostoma pearsei C. H. Eigenmann, 1920
  Chaetostoma platyrhynchus Fowler, 1943
  Chaetostoma sovichthys L. P. Schultz, 1944
  Chaetostoma spondylus Salcedo & H. Ortega, 2015
  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
  Chaetostoma vagum Fowler, 1943
  Chaetostoma vasquezi Lasso A. & Provenzano, 1998
  Chaetostoma venezuelae (L. P. Schultz, 1944)
  Chaetostoma yurubiense Ceas & Page, 1996
caption: Chaetostoma anomalum
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