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Loricariidae
Lyre-tail Pleco
Acanthicus hystrix
A giant armored bottom dweller of the Amazon
- Tropical
- Southern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Freshwater fish
- South America
- Large
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Freshwater fish
LargeLyre-tail Pleco is a large freshwater armored catfish of the Amazon bottom. Its plated body can grow to roughly seventy centimeters long.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Catfishes
- Family
- Loricariidae
- Genus
- Acanthicus
- Maximum length
- 53 cm
- Water
- Freshwater
- Distribution
- South America: Amazon River basin.
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