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A combined molecular and morphological phylogeny of the Loricariinae (Siluriformes: Loricariidae), with emphasis on the Harttiini and Farlowellini   Link here  
A fossil loricariid catfish (Siluriformes: Loricarioidea) from the Taubaté Basin, eastern Brazil   Link here  
A head with a suckermouth : a functional-morphological study of the head of the suckermouth armoured catfish Ancistrus cf. triradiatus (Loricariidae, Siluriformes)   Link here  
A new blunt-headed species of Hypostomus (Teleostei: Loricariidae) from the Rio Tocantins basin (Hypostomus minotauros).   Link here  
A new Basal Ancistrini Genus and Species from the Andes of Northern Peru (Siluriformes: Loricariidae)   Link here  
A new dark-dotted species of Hypostomus Lacépède (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from rio Paraguaçu, Bahia State, Brazil   Link here  
A new dark-saddled species of Hypostomus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the upper rio Paraguay basin   Link here  
A new distinctively banded species of Panaqolus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the western Amazon Basin in Peru   Link here  
A new distinctively banded species of Pseudolithoxus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the upper Orinoco River   Link here  
A new distinctively striped species of bushynose catfish (Siluriformes: Loricariidae: Ancistrus) from the Pachitea River drainage, Pasco, Peru (Ancistrus yanesha)   Link here  
A New Genus and Species of a Minute Suckermouth Armored Catfish (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Rio Tocantins Drainage, Central Brazil: The Smallest Known Loricariid Catfish   Link here  
A new genus and species of whiptail armored catfish (Siluriformes: Loricariinae) from southern Venezuela (Cheilonimata minuta).   Link here  
A new genus of armored catfish (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Greater Amazon, with a review of the species and description of five new species (Rhinotocinclus)   Link Here  
A new pale-spotted species of Hypostomus Lacépède (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the rio Tocantins and rio Xingu basins in central Brazil   Link here  
A new species of Acestridium Haseman, 1911 (Loricariidae: Hypoptopomatinae) from the Eastern Amazon basin, Brazil   Link here  
A new species of Ancistrus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from Tapajós and Xingu basins, Brazil (Ancistrus luzia).   Link here  
A new species of Ancistrus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae), with a redescription of Ancistrus brevipinnis and further evidence of hidden diversity in the laguna dos Patos system, Brazil (Ancistrus megacanthus).   Link here  
A New Species of Armored Catfish (Loricariidae: Hypoptopomatinae) Syntopic and Superficially Similar to Parotocinclus collinsae, from the Potaro River Basin, Guyana. (Parotocinclus hardmani)   Link here  
A new species of armored catfish of the genus Scobinancistrus (Loricariidae: Hypostominae) from the Xingu River basin, Brazil (Scobinancistrus raonii) aka L082.   Link here  
A New Species of Chaetostoma (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) Expands the Distribution of Rubbernose Plecos Eastward into the Lower Amazon Basin of Brazil (C. orientale)   Link here  
A new species of Chaetostoma Tschudi (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from colombia with a definition of The C. anale species group   Link here  
A new species of Chaetostoma, an armored catfish (Siluriformes: Loricariidae), from the río Marañón drainage, Amazon basin, Peru   Link here  
A New Species of Curculionichthys (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Saramacca and Marowijne River Basins, Suriname and French Guiana (Curculionchthys monolechis)   Link here  
A new species of Farlowella (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the upper Bermejo River, La Plata River basin, northwestern Argentina   Link here  
A new species of Farlowella (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) of the F. nattereri species-group from the rio Xingu basin, Mato Grosso, Brazil, with comments on Farlowella jauruensis, a poorly-known species from the upper rio Paraguai basin   Link here  
A new species of Harttia from the rio São Francisco basin (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) (Harttia canastra).
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A new species of Hemiancistrus from the rio Araguaia basin, Goiás state, Brazil (Siluriformes: Loricariidae)   Link here  
A new species of Hisonotus (Siluriformes, Loricariidae) from rio São Francisco basin, Brazil   Link here  
A new Species of Hisonotus (Siluriformes, Loricariidae) of the Upper Ri´o Uruguay Basin   Link here  
A new species of Hisonotus (Siluriformes, Loricariidae, Otothyrini) from the República Oriental del Uruguay   Link here  
A new species of Hypancistrus Isbrücker & Nijssen 1991 (Loricariidae, Siluriformes) from the rapids of the middle Rio Tocantins (Hypansistrus parkateje)   Link here  
A new species of Hypostomus Lacépède, 1803 (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the upper rio Paraná basin, Southern Brazil   Link here  
A new species of Loricaria (Loricariidae: Loricariinae) from the upper Amazon River basin, Colombia (Loricaria nimairaco)   Link here  
A new species of mailed catfish of genus Rhadinoloricaria (Siluriformes: Loricariidae: Loricariinae) from Rio Negro basin, Brazil (Rhadinoloricaria papillosa)   Link here  
A new species of Microlepidogaster (Siluriformes: Loricariidae: Hypoptopomatinae) from the upper rio Paraná basin, Brazil   Link here  
A new Species of Otocinclus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Rio Madeira Drainage, Brazil   Link here  
A new species of Otothyropsis (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the rio Paraguay basin, Paraguay   Link here  
A new species of Panaqolus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the rio Branco   Link here  
A new species of Panaqolus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the rio Madeira basin with remarkable intraspecific color variation   Link here  
A new species of Peckoltia from the Upper Orinoco (Siluriformes, Loricariidae)   Link here  
A new species of Pseudancistrus from the Río Caroní, Venezuela (Siluriformes: Loricariidae)   Link here  
A new species of Rhadinoloricaria (Siluriformes: Loricariinae) from Colombia (Rhadinoloricaria andaki)   Link here  
A new species of rheophilic armored catfish of Rineloricaria (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Vaupés River, Amazonas basin, Colombia (Rineloricaria cachivera).   Link here  
A new species of Rineloricaria (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from coastal drainages of Rio de Janeiro, southeastern Brazil (Rineloricaria nudipectoris)
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A new species of Rineloricaria (Siluriformes: Loricariidae: Loricariinae) from rio Daraá, rio Negro basin, Amazon, Brazil   Link here  
A new species of Sturisoma Swainson, 1838 (Loricariidae: Loricariinae) from the Madeira River basin, with a discussion of historical biogeography of western Amazonas and Paraguay River basins (Sturisoma reisi).   Link here  
A new species of suckermouth armored catfish, Pseudancistrus kwinti (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Coppename River drainage, Central Suriname Nature Reserve, Suriname   Link here  
A new species of the armored catfish genus Pareiorhaphis Miranda Ribeiro (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the rio Paraguaçu, Bahia State, northeastern Brazil (P. lophia)   Link here  
A new species of the armored catfish Parotocinclus (Loricariidae: Hypoptopomatinae), from the Amazon basin in Colombia   Link here  
A new species of the catfish genus Cordylancistrus (Siluriformes, Loricariidae) from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia   Link here  
A new species of the catfish Neoplecostomus (Loricariidae: Neoplecostominae) from a coastal drainage in southeastern Brazil   Link here  
A new species of the leopard pleco genus Pseudacanthicus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Rio Xingu, Brazil   Link here  
A New Species of Tiger Pleco Panaqolus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Xingu Basin, Brazil   Link here  
A new species of whiptail armored catfish, genus Pseudohemiodon (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Orinoco River basin, Llanos region of Colombia and Venezuela (Pseudohemiodon unillano)   Link here  
A New Species of Whiptail Catfish, Genus Loricaria (Siluriformes: Loricariidae), from the Rio Curua´ (Xingu Basin), Brazil   Link here  
A new tiny-spotted species of Hypostomus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the upper Rio Tocantins basin, Goiás State, Brazil (Hypostomus lamberti)   Link here  
Acanthicus adonis, ein neuer Harnischwels aus dem Rio Tocantins, Brazilien (Pisces, Siluriformes, Loricariidae)   Link here  
An albino armored catfish Schizolecis guntheri (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from an Atlantic Forest coastal basin   Link here  
An Enigmatic New Loricariid (Actinopterygii: Siluriformes) from Relictual Upper Reaches of Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, Brazil (Parotocinclus adamanteus)   Link here  
An integrative framework to reevaluate the Neotropical catfish genus Guyanancistrus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) with particular emphasis on the Guyanancistrus brevispinis complex   Link here  
Ancistrus falconensis n. sp. and A. gymnorhynchus Kner (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from central Venezuelan Caribbean coastal streams   Link here  
Ancistrus maximus, a new species of red-dotted armored catfish from rio Branco, Roraima State, Brazilian Amazon (Siluriformes: Loricariidae)   Link here  
Araichthys loro, a new genus and species of suckermouth armored catfish from the upper rio Tapajós basin, Brazil (Siluriformes: Loricariidae)   Link here  
Baryancistrus demantoides and Hemiancistrus subviridis, two new uniquely colored species of catfishes from Venezuela (Siluriformes: Loricariidae)   Link here  
Biogeography and species delimitation of the rheophilic suckermouth catfish genus Pseudolithoxus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae), with the description of a new species from the Brazilian Amazon   Link here  
Chromosome polymorphism in Ancistrus cuiabae Knaack, 1999 (Siluriformes: Loricariidae: Ancistrini)   Link here  
Cordylancistrus santarosensis (Siluriformes: Loricariidae), a new species with unique snout deplatation from the Río Santa Rosa, Ecuador   Link here  
Cytogenetic and molecular studies in species of the Ancistrini tribe from Southern Brazil
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Description and relationships of Otothyropsis marapoama, a new genus and species of Hypoptopomatine catfish (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from rio Tietê basin, southeastern Brazil   Link here  
Description of a new Lithoxus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Guayana Highlands with a discussion of Guiana Shield biogeography   Link here  
Description of a new species of Parancistrus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the rio Xingu, Brazil   Link here  
Description of a new species of Parotocinclus (Siluriformes, Hypoptopomatinae) from the rio Tapajós basin   Link here  
Description of Neblinichthys brevibracchium and N. echinasus from the upper Mazaruni River, Guyana (Siluriformes: Loricariidae), and recognition of N. roraima and N. yaravi as distinct species   Link here  
Description of two new species of Hisonotus Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1889 (Ostariophysi, Loricariidae) from the rio Paraná-Paraguay basin, Brazil   Link here  
Farlowella mitoupibo, a new species of stick catfish from the upper Guaviare River, Orinoco basin, Colombia (Teleostei: Loricariidae)   Link here  
Four New Hypancistrus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from Amazonas, Venezuela   Link here  
Four new species of the suckermouth armored catfish genus Lasiancistrus (Loricariidae: Ancistrinae)   Link here  
Genetic variability in four samples of Neoplecostomus yapo (Teleostei: Loricariidae) from the rio Paranapanema basin, Brazil   Link here  
Gymnotocinclus anosteos, a new uniquely-plated genus and species of loricariid catfish (Teleostei: Siluriformes) from the upper rio Tocantins basin, central Brazil   Link here  
Harttia merevari, a new species of catfish (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from Venezuela   Link here  
Hemiancistrus guahiborum, a new suckermouth armored catfish from Southern Venezuela (Siluriformes: Loricariidae)   Link here  
Hisonotus pachysarkos, a new species of cascudinho from the rio Ivaí basin, upper rio Paraná system, Brazil (Loricariidae: Otothyrinae)   Link here  
Holding in the stream: convergent evolution of suckermouth structures in Loricariidae (Siluriformes)   Link here  
How many species of Sturisoma (Siluriformes: Loricariinae) inhabit the La Plata Basin? (S. barbatum & S. robustum the junior synonym)   Link here  
Hypancistrus inspector : A New Species of Suckermouth Armored Catfish (Loricariidae: Ancistrinae)   Link here  
Hypostomus chrysostiktos, a new species of armored catfish (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from rio Paraguaçu, Bahia State, Brazil   Link here  
Hypostomus formosae, a new catfish species from the Paraguay River Basin with redescription of H. boulengeri (Siluriformes: Loricariidae)   Link here  
Hypostomus hermanni redescription and a new species of Hypostomus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from Upper Paraná River basin, Brazil   Link here  
Hypostomus melanephelis, a new armored catfish species from the rio Tapajós basin, Brazil (Teleostei: Loricariidae)   Link here  
Hypostomus nigrolineatus, a new dark-striped species from the rio Jequitinhonha and rio Pardo basins, Brazil (Siluriformes, Loricariidae)   Link here  
Hypostomus rhantos (Siluriformes: Loricariidae), a new species from southern Venezuela   Link here  
Hypostomus sertanejo (Siluriformes: Loricariidae), new armoured catfish species from north-eastern Brazil   Link here  
Identification key and pictures of the Hypostomus Lacépède, 1803 (Siluriformes, Loricariidae) from the rio Ivaí, upper rio Paraná basin   Link here  
Identity of Hypostomus plecostomus (Linnaeus, 1758), with an overview of Hypostomus species from the Guianas (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Loricariidae)   Link here  
Identification of cryptic species in allopatric populations of Hypostomus tietensis (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) through cytogenetics analyses   Link here  
Induced Reproduction and Reproductive Characteristics of Rhinelepis aspera Agassiz, 1829 (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes, Loricariidae)   Link here  
Interactions between non-native armored suckermouth catfish (Loricariidae: Pterygoplichthys) and native Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris)
in artesian springs
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Intergeneric phylogenetic relationships in catfishes of the Loricariinae (Siluriformes: Loricariidae), with the description of Fonchiiloricaria nanodon: a new genus and species from Peru   Link here  
Isbrueckerichthys epakmos, a new species of loricariid catfish from the rio Ribeira de Iguape basin, Brazil (Teleostei: Siluriformes)   Link here  
Karyotype description of three species of Loricariidae (Siluriformes) and occurrence of the ZZ/ZW sexual system in Hemiancistrus spilomma Cardoso & Lucinda, 2003   Link here  
Lithoxus stocki a species new to science of ancistrin loricariid catfish from the Maroni River drainage, with a comparison of the primary type specimens of the six species of Lithoxus (syn.: Paralithoxus ) (Pisces, Siluriformes, Loricariidae)   Link here  
Loricaria luciae, a new species of whiptail catfish (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Paraguay and lower Paraná River basins of southeastern South America   Link here  
Microlepidogaster arachas, a new species of hypoptopomatine catfish (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the upper rio Paraná basin, Brazil   Link here  
Microlepidogaster discontenta, a new species of hypoptopomatine catfish (Teleostei: Loricariidae) from the rio São Francisco basin, Brazil   Link here  
Molecular phylogeny of the highly diversified catfish subfamily Loricariinae (Siluriformes, Loricariidae) reveals incongruences with morphological classification   Link here  
Multilocus phylogeny, diagnosis and generic revision of the Guiana Shield endemic suckermouth armoured catfish tribe Lithoxini (Loricariidae: Hypostominae)   Link here  
Neoplecostomus (Teleostei: Loricariidae) from the upper Rio Paraná basin, Brazil, with description of three new species   Link here  
New finding of Rhadinoloricaria macromystax (Siluriformes: Loricariidae): redescription of the genus and description of a new species from Ecuador (Rhadinoloricaria stewarti).   Link here  
New Philippine record of south american sailfin catfishes (Pisces: Loricariidae)   Link here  
New species of Farlowella (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the rio Tapajós basin, Pará, Brazil (Farlowella wuyjugu)
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New species of the Pseudancistrus barbatus group (Siluriformes, Loricariidae) with comments on its biogeography and dispersal routes   Link here  
New species of Pseudacanthicus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the rio Xingu, Amazon, Brazil (Pseudacanthicus nyktos)
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Nine new species of the genus Rineloricaria (Siluriformes, Loricariidae) from Uruguay river, southern Brazil   Link here  
Non-Native Suckermouth Armored Catfishes in Florida: Description of Nest Burrows and Burrow Colonies with Assessment of Shoreline Conditions   Link here  
Origin of species diversity in the catfish genus Hypostomus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) inhabiting the Paraná river basin, with the description of a new species   Link here  
Ontogeny and Functional morphology of a highly specialized Trophic Apparatus: A case study of Neotropical suckermouth armoured catfishes (Loricariidae, Siluriformes)   Link here  
Otocinclus batmani, a new species of hypoptopomatine catfish (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from Colombia and Peru   Link here  
Otocinclus cocama, a new uniquely colored loricariid catfish from Peru (Teleostei: Siluriformes), with comments on the impact of taxonomic revisions to the discovery of new taxa   Link here  
Otocinclus tapirape: A New Hypoptopomatine Catfish from Central Brazil (Siluriformes: Loricariidae)   Link here  
Panaque nigrolineatus laurafabianae, a new, commercially exploited subspecies of ornamental wood-eating pleco (Loricariidae: Hypostominae) from the Guaviare River basin in Colombia   Link here  
Pareiorhaphis scutula, a new species of neoplecostomine catfish (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the upper rio Doce basin, Southeastern Brazil   Link here  
Pareiorhina hyptiorhachis, a new catfish species from Rio Paraíba do Sul basin, southeastern Brazil (Siluriformes, Loricariidae)   Link here  
Parotocinclus arandai, a new species of hypoptopomatine catfish (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the upper rios Jucuruçu and Buranhém, States of Bahia and Minas Gerais, Brazil   Link here  
Parotocinclus nandae, a new distinctive colored catfish (Loricariidae: Hypoptopomatinae) from the upper Rio Paraguaçu, Bahia State, northeastern Brazil   Link here  
Peckoltia cavatica, a new loricariid catfish from Guyana and a redescription of P. braueri (Eigenmann 1912) (Siluriformes)   Link here  
Peckoltia compta, a new species of catfish from the Brazilian Amazon, rio Tapajós basin (Siluriformes: Loricariidae)   Link here  
Phylogenetic relationships of the species of Acestridium Haseman, 1911 (Siluriformes: Loricariidae)   Link here  
Phylogeography of Baryancistrus xanthellus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae), a rheophilic catfish endemic to the Xingu River basin in eastern Amazonia   Link here  
Pseudacanthicus pitanga: a new species of Ancistrini (Siluriformes: Loricariidae: Hypostominae) from rio Tocantins Basin, North Brazil   Link here  
Pseudancistrus corantijniensis, a new species from the Guyana Shield (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) with a molecular and morphological description of the Pseudancistrus barbatus group   Link here  
Pseudohemiodon almendarizi Provenzano-Rizzi & Argüello & Barriga-Salazar 2022, new species. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act   Link here  
Rediscovery and redescription of the endangered Hypostomus subcarinatus Castelnau, 1855 (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Rio São Francisco basin in Brazil   Link here  
Redescription of Dekeyseria picta (Siluriformes; Loricariidae), a poorly known ancistrin from the Amazon and Orinoco Basins: redescription of dekeyseria picta   Link here  
Redescription of Hisonotus notatus Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1889 (Loricariidae: Hypoptopomatinae), the type species of the genus, and description of a new species from coastal drainages of southeastern Brazil   Link here  
Redescription of Panaqolus purusiensis (LaMonte, 1935) (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) with identification key to the species of the genus   Link here  
Redescription of Pterygoplichthys punctatus and description of a new species of Pterygoplichthys (Siluriformes: Loricariidae)   Link here  
Reproductive behavior, development and eye regression in the cave armored catfish, Ancistrus cryptophthalmus Reis, 1987 (Siluriformes: Loricariidae), breed in laboratory   Link here  
Resurrection of Pareiorhaphis Miranda Ribeiro, 1918 (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Loricariidae), and description of a new species from the rio Iguaçu basin, Brazil   Link here  
Re-validation of Otocinclus arnoldi Regan and reappraisal of Otocinclus phylogeny (Siluriformes: Loricariidae)   Link here  
Review of Ancistrus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the northwestern Guiana Shield, Orinoco Andes, and adjacent basins with description of six new species   Link here  
Review of the armoured catfish genus Hypostomus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Parnaíba River basin, Northeastern Brazil, with description of a new species (Hypostomus velhomonge)   Link here  
Revisão taxonômica das espécies de Hisonotus Eigenmann & Eigenmann (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) da bacia do rio Uruguai e sistema da laguna dos Patos   Link here  
Revision of Panaque (Panaque), with Descriptions of Three New Species from the Amazon Basin (Siluriformes, Loricariidae)   Link here  
Revision of the genus Pseudotocinclus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae: Hypoptopomatinae), with descriptions of two new species   Link here  
Revisiting Hypostomus khimaera (Siluriformes: Loricariidae): the identity of a morphologically variable species   Link here  
Rhinolekos capetinga: a new cascudinho species (Loricariidae, Otothyrinae) from the rio Tocantins basin and comments on its ancestral dispersal route   Link here  
Rineloricaria osvaldoi (Siluriformes: Loricariidae): a new species of armored catfish from rio Vermelho, Araguaia basin, Brazil   Link here  
Salinity tolerance of non-native suckermouth armoured catfish (Loricariidae: Pterygoplichthys sp.) from Kerala, India   Link here  
Species boundaries of the whiptail catfish Rineloricaria (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Paraíba do Sul River drainage, southeastern Brazil, with species redescriptions and description of a new species (Rineloricaria paraibensis)   Link here  
Species delimitation based on integrative approach suggests reallocation of genus in Hypostomini catfish (Siluriformes, Loricariidae) (Pterygoplichthys/Hypostomus chrysostiktos)   Link here  
Systematic of the Stick Catfishes, Farlowella Eigenmann & Eigenmann (Pisces, Loricariidae)   Link here  
Systematics of Lamontichthys Miranda-Ribeiro (Siluriformes: Loricariidae), with the description of two new species   Link here  
Systematics of the genus Hypoptopoma Günther, 1868 (Siluriformes: Loricariidae)   Link here  
Taxonomic revision of Sturisoma Swainson, 1838 (Loricariidae: Loricariinae), with descriptions of four new species (S. ghazziae, S. careirensia, S. rappydanielae, S. defranciscoi)   Link here  
Taxonomy of Ixinandria Isbrücker & Nijssen (Loricariidae: Loricariinae) based on morphological and molecular data   Link here  
Taxonomic revision of Hopliancistrus Isbrücker & Nijssen, 1989 (Siluriformes, Loricariidae) with redescription of Hopliancistrus tricornis and description of four new species   Link here  
The End of an Almost 70-Year Wait: A New Species of Spatuloricaria (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Rio Xingu and Rio Tapajós Basins   Link here  
The Fitzcarrald Arch: A Vicariant Event for Chaetostoma (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) Speciation?   Link here  
The genera Isorineloricaria and Aphanotorulus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) with description of a new species   Link here  
The genera of the Neotropical armored catfish subfamily Loricariinae (Siluriformes: Loricariidae): a practical key and synopsis   Link here  
The genus Peckoltia with the description of two new species and a reanalysis of the phylogeny of the genera of the Hypostominae (Siluriformes: Loricariidae)   Link here  
The genus Pseudohemiodon (Siluriformes, Loricariidae) in Ecuador, with the description of a new species (Pseudohemiodon almendarizi)   Link here  
The loricariid catfish genus Lasiancistrus (Siluriformes) with descriptions of two new species   Link here  
The ornate rubbernose pleco (Siluriformes, Loricariidae, Chaetostoma), a new species from the Ucayali River Basin, Peru, (Chaetostoma sacromento)   Link here  
The species of Hemiancistrus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from Ecuador   Link here  
The species of the Hypostomus cochliodon group (Siluriformes: Loricariidae)   Link here  
Three new species of Ancistrus Kner, 1854 (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Rio Iguaçu basin, Paraná State, Brazil   Link here  
Three new species of Harttia (Loricariidae: Loricariinae) from Serra do Cachimbo, Rio Xingu basin, Pará, Northern Brazil   Link here  
Three new species of saddled loricariid catfishes, and a review of Hemiancistrus, Peckoltia, and allied genera (Siluriformes)   Link here  
Three new species of the armored catfish genus Loricaria (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from river channels of the Amazon basin   Link here  
Trans-Andean Ancistrus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae)   Link here  
Two new Amazonian species of armored catfishes (Siluriformes: Loricariidae): Ancistrus verecundus and Ancistrus parecis   Link here  
Two new ornamental loricariid catfishes of Baryancistrus from rio Xingu drainage (Siluriformes: Hypostominae)   Link here  
Two new species of Hypoptopomatinae from the rio Paraíba do Sul basin, with comments on the monophyly of Parotocinclus and the Otothyrini (Siluriformes: Loricariidae)   Link here  
Two new species of the Hypostomus cochliodon group (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the rio Paraguay basin, with a redescription of Hypostomus cochliodon Kner, 1854   Link here  
Two new species of Hypostomus Lacépède (Teleostei: Loricariidae) from the upper rio Paraná basin, Central Brazil   Link here  
Two new species of Neoplecostomus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from high altitudes of the upper rio Paraná basin, Brazil (N.sapucai & N. altimontanus)   Link here  
Two new species of Pseudancistrus (Siluriformes, Loricariidae) from the Amazon basin, northern Brazil   Link here  
Two new species of Rineloricaria (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the rio Iguaçu basin, southern Brazil   Link here  
Two new species of spotted Hypancistrus from the Rio Negro drainage (Loricariidae, Hypostominae)   Link here  
Two new species of the genus Hemiancistrus Bleeker (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the upper rio Uruguai basin   Link here  
Two new species of the Hypostomus cochliodon group (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the rio Negro basin in Brazil   Link here  
Two new species of Pseudancistrus from southern Venezuela (Siluriformes: Loricariidae)   Link here  
       

 Mochokidae (Synodontis, Upside-Down Cats)

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A New Species of Synodontis (Siluriformes: Mochokidae) from Tributaries of the Kasai River in Northern Angola   Link here  
Atopodontus adriaensi, a new genus and species of African suckermouth catfish from the Ogooué and Nyanga River systems of Gabon (Siluriformes: Mochokidae)   Link here  
Continental Diversification of an African Catfish Radiation (Mochokidae: Synodontis)   Link here  
Description of Synodontis punu, new species (Siluriformes: Mochokidae) from the Lower Guinea ichthyofaunal province (Gabon and Republic of Congo), Africa
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Designation of a neotype for Synodontis schall (Bloch and Schneider, 1801) and description of two new species of Synodontis (Siluriformes: Mochokidae)   Link here  
Early life-history features associated with brood parasitism in the cuckoo catfish, Synodontis multipunctatus (Siluriformes: Mochokidae)   Link here  
Exceptional levels of species discovery ameliorate inferences of the biogeography and diversification of an Afrotropical catfish family   Link here  
Giants in a Minute Catfish Genus: First Description of Fossil Mochokus (Siluriformes, Mochokidae) in the Late Miocene of Chad, Including M. Gigas, sp. nov.   Link here  
Hidden in the riffles: A new suckermouth catfish (Mochokidae, Chiloglanis) from the middle Zambezi River system, Zimbabwe (Chiloglanis carnatus)   Link here  
Mitochondrial phylogeny and phylogeography of East African squeaker catfishes (Siluriformes: Synodontis)   Link here  
New phylogenetic insights into the African catfish families Mochokidae and Austroglanididae   Link here  
On the origin of the Synodontis catfish species flock from Lake Tanganyika   Link here  
Phylogenetic relationships between Synodontis species: some preliminary results   Link here  
Revised taxonomy of Synodontis catfishes (Siluriformes: Mochokidae) from the Lake Tanganyika basin reveals lower species diversity than expected   Link here  
Studies on the biology of two species of catfish Synodontis schall and Synodontis nigrita (Ostariophysi : Mochokidae) from the Ouémé River, Bénin   Link here  
Swimming in the upside down catfish Synodontis nigriventris: it matters which way is up   Link here  
Synodontis acanthoperca, a new species from the Ogôoué River system, Gabon with comments on spiny ornamentation and sexual dimorphism in mochokid catfishes (Siluriformes: Mochokidae)   Link here  
Synodontis carineae, a new species of mochokid catfish from the Kouilou-Niari River basin, Africa (Siluriformes: Mochokidae)   Link here  
Synodontis woleuensis (Siluriformes: Mochokidae), a new species of catfish from Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, Africa   Link here  
The bony anatomy of Chadian Synodontis (Osteichthyes, Teleostei, Siluriformes, Mochokidae): interspecific variations and specific characters   Link here  
The enigmatic Synodontis leoparda Pfeffer, 1896, with the discovery of the syntypes (Siluriformes: Mochokidae)   Link here  
The Microsynodontis (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Mochokidae) of the lower Guinea region, west central Africa, with the description of eight new species   Link here  
Three new species of African suckermouth catfishes, genus Chiloglanis (Siluriformes: Mochokidae), from the lower Malagarasi and Luiche rivers of western Tanzania   Link here  
Two New Species of Suckermouth Catfishes (Mochokidae: Chiloglanis) from Upper Guinean Forest Streams in West Africa (C. fortuitus & C. frodobagginsi).   Link here  
Unrecognised endemic biodiversity within East African Chiloglanis catfish populations   Link here  
       

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