# Furcodontichthys

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{{Short description|Species of fish}}
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| 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](/source/L%C3%BAcia_Helena_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>
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'''''Furcodontichthys''''' is a [monospecific genus](/source/monospecific_genus) of freshwater [ray-finned fish](/source/ray-finned_fish) is a species of freshwater [ray-finned fish](/source/Actinopterygii) belonging to the [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) [Loricariidae](/source/Loricariidae), the suckermouth armored catfishes, and the [subfamily](/source/subfamily) [Loricariinae](/source/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](/source/Zootaxa)|volume=1462|pages=1–40|year=2007|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.1462.1.1}}</ref>

This species is [endemic](/source/endemism) to Brazil where it is known from the middle [Amazon](/source/Amazon_River) at [Lake Tefé](/source/Tef%C3%A9) and from the upper [Juruá River](/source/Juru%C3%A1_River) drainage in the [Solimões River](/source/Solim%C3%B5es) basin. ''F. novaesi'' inhabits sandy substrates.<ref name=covain/>

''Furcodontichthys novaesi'' reaches a length of {{convert|10.2|cm|in}} [SL](/source/fish_measurement).<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](/source/Loricariinae) subfamily.<ref name=covain/>

==References==
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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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