Pareiorhina rudolphi

Pareiorhina rudolphi is a species of armored catfish endemic to Brazil where it occurs in the Paraíba do Sul River near Lorena, São Paulo State, Brazil. This species grows to a length of TL.

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of Rodolpho von Ihering, a zoologist and fish culturist, who first described this catfish as Plecostomus microps in 1907, but used a preoccupied name and so it was renamed.