Hypostomus wuchereri

{{Short description|Species of catfish}}

{{Speciesbox

| genus = Hypostomus

| species = wuchereri

| status = DD

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio) |author-link=Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation |year= 2021 |title= Hypostomus wuchereri |page= e.T187336A1826659 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T187336A1826659.pt|access-date=4 January 2023}}

| authority = (Günther, 1864)

| synonyms = *Plecostomus wuchereri

| synonyms_ref =

}}

Hypostomus wuchereri{{Cite web |title=ITIS - Report: Hypostomus wuchereri |url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=680265#null |access-date=2022-12-14 |website=www.itis.gov}} is a species of catfish in the family Loricariidae. It is native to South America, where it occurs in the Paraguaçu River basin in Brazil. The species reaches 35 cm (13.8 inches) in total length and is believed to be a facultative air-breather.{{Cite web |date=2022 |editor-last=Froese |editor-first=Rainer |editor2-last=Pauly |editor2-first=Daniel |title=Hypostomus wuchereri |url=https://www.fishbase.se/summary/49893 |website=FishBase}}

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of Brazilian physician Otto Edward Henry Wucherer (1820–1873), whose personal collection supplied holotypes of this species and several other species from Bahia, Brazil.{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/hypostominae/ | title = Family LORICARIIDAE: Subfamily HYPOSTOMINAE Kner 1853 (Suckermouth Catfishes or Plecos) | access-date= 10 August 2024 | 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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