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Hypostomus brevis[1] is a species of catfish in the family Loricariidae. It is native to South America, where it is known from the Paraná River basin in Brazil. The species reaches 7.4 cm (2.9 inches) SL and is believed to be a facultative air-breather.[2]

Hypostomus brevis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Siluriformes
Family:	Loricariidae
Subfamily:	Hypostominae
Tribe:	Hypostomini
Genus:	Hypostomus
Species:	H. brevis
Binomial name
Hypostomus brevis (Nichols, 1919)
Synonyms
Plecostomus brevis Nichols, 1919

Taxonomy

The fish was first formally described by John Treadwell Nichols in 1919, as a species of Plecostomus; the type specimen was collected from the Mata Atlântica bioregion in São Paulo.[3] The type is held at the American Museum of Natural History.[4] The taxon was transferred to the genus Hypostomus in 1980 by Isaäc J. H. Isbrücker.[5]

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