# Pleco

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**Plecostomus**, **pleco**, or **plec** refers to several species of freshwater [loricariid](/source/Loricariidae) catfish commonly sold as aquarium fish:

- *[Hypostomus plecostomus](/source/Hypostomus_plecostomus)*
- *[Hypostomus punctatus](/source/Hypostomus_punctatus)*
- *[Pterygoplichthys multiradiatus](/source/Pterygoplichthys_multiradiatus)*
- *[Pterygoplichthys pardalis](/source/Pterygoplichthys_pardalis)*
- *[Ancistrus cirrhosus](/source/Ancistrus_cirrhosus)*

**Pleco** may also refer to:

- [Pleco Software](/source/Pleco_Software), an English–[Sinitic](/source/Sinitic_languages) dictionary application for iOS and Android devices, which uses the traditional Chinese character for "fish" (魚 *yú*) in its icon.

## See also

- [Plecostomus (disambiguation)](/source/Plecostomus)

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