{{Short description|Species of fish}} {{Speciesbox | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name = iucn>{{cite iucn |author=Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio) |author-link=Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation |year=2022 |title=''Furcodontichthys novaesi'' |lang=pt-br |article-number=e.T134711293A134711310 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-1.RLTS.T134711293A134711310.pt |access-date=6 January 2026}}</ref> | parent_authority = Rapp Py-Daniel, 1981<ref name = "Cof family">{{Cof family|family=Loricariinae|access-date=6 January 2025}}</ref> | taxon = Furcodontichthys novaesi | authority = Rapp Py-Daniel, 1981<ref name = "Cof genus">{{Cof genus|genus=Furcodontichthys|access-date=6 January 2025}}</ref> | display_parents =3 }}
'''''Furcodontichthys''''' is a monospecific genus of freshwater ray-finned fish is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Loricariidae, the suckermouth armored catfishes, and the subfamily Loricariinae, the mailed catfishes. The only species in the genus is '''''Furcodontichthys novaesi'''''.<ref name = "Cof genus"/><ref name=covain>{{cite journal|url=http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2007f/zt01462p040.pdf|title=The genera of the Neotropical armored catfish subfamily Loricariinae (Siluriformes: Loricariidae): a practical key and synopsis|first=Raphael|last=Covain|author2=Fisch-Muller, Sonia|journal=Zootaxa|volume=1462|pages=1–40|year=2007|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.1462.1.1}}</ref>
This species is endemic to Brazil where it is known from the middle Amazon at Lake Tefé and from the upper Juruá River drainage in the Solimões River basin. ''F. novaesi'' inhabits sandy substrates.<ref name=covain/>
''Furcodontichthys novaesi'' reaches a length of {{convert|10.2|cm|in}} SL.<ref name=fishbase>{{FishBase|genus=Furcodontichthys|species=novaesi|year=2011|month=December}}</ref> As with closely related genera, males of ''Furcodontichthys'' show a hypertrophied development of the lips suggesting that this genus is a lip brooder.<ref name=covain/> The presence of conspicuous fringed barbels at the lip corners is unique among the Loricariinae subfamily.<ref name=covain/>
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Category:Loricariinae Category:Taxa named by Lúcia Helena Rapp Py-Daniel Category:Fish described in 1981 Category:Suckermouth catfish of Brazil Category:Fish of the Amazon basin Category:Endemic fish of Brazil
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