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Pseudolithoxus tigris is a species of armored catfish endemic to Venezuela where it is found in the upper Orinoco and Ventuari River basins. This species grows to a length of 9.4 centimetres (3.7 in) SL.

Pseudolithoxus tigris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Siluriformes
Family:	Loricariidae
Genus:	Pseudolithoxus
Species:	P. tigris
Binomial name
Pseudolithoxus tigris (Armbruster & Provenzano, 2000)

P. tigris probably matures at a relatively small size; in a specimen about 5 cm (2 in) SL, the snout and pectoral-fin spine odontodes are already greatly elongated, while the odontodes are only beginning to develop in similarly sized specimens of other species.[1]

References

• Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2011). "Pseudolithoxus tigris" in FishBase. December 2011 version.

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