New Philippine record of South American sailfin catfishes (Pisces: Loricariidae)

• Main Authors: Chavez, Joel M., De La Paz, Reynaldo M., Manohar, Surya Khrisha, Pagulaya, Roberto C., Carandang, Jose Santos R., VI
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2006
• Subjects: Pterygoplichthys—Variation—Philippines; Introduced fishes—Philippines; Biology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/11200
• Institution: De La Salle University

A taxonomic and biogeographic study of the introduced suckermouth armored catfishes locally known as “janitor fish” is briefly described. Specimens were collected from five sites in the Laguna de Bay basin and were examined for 19 meristic and 37 morphometric characters and other external features i...