Copionodon lianae

{{Short description|Species of catfish}}

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| taxon = Copionodon lianae

| authority = Campanario & de Pinna, 2000

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Copionodon lianae is a species of catfishes (order Siluriformes) of the family Trichomycteridae.Campanario, C.M. and M.C.C. de Pinna, 2000. A new species of the primitive trichomycterid subfamily Copionodontinae from northeastern Brazil (Teleostei: Trichomycteridae). Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwat. 11(4):369-375. It is found in the Grisante River, a tributary of the Mucujê River, which is a tributary of the Paraguaçu River in Bahia, Brazil.{{cite journal|url=http://silurus.acnatsci.org/ACSI/library/biblios/2007_Ferraris_Catfish_Checklist.pdf|title=Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types|first=Carl J. Jr.|last=Ferraris|journal=Zootaxa|volume=1418|pages=1–628|year=2007|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.1418.1.1 }} This species reaches a length of {{convert|6.2|cm|in|abbr=on}}.

{{FishBase |genus= Copionodon|species= lianae| month = February | year = 2015}}

Etymology

The catfish is named in honor of ichthyologist Liana Figueiredo Mendes, of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte in Brazil, who collected the type specimens.{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/siluriformes1/ | title = Order SILURIFORMES: Families DIPLOMYSTIDAE, CETOPSIDAE, TRICHOMYCTERIDAE and NEMATOGENYIDAE | access-date= 15 February 2022 | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | name-list-style = amp | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara | date = 22 September 2018}}

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