Hypostomus renestoi is a species of catfish in the family Loricariidae. It is native to South America, where it occurs in the upper Paraguay River basin in Brazil. The species was described in 2018 by Cláudio Henrique Zawadzki, Hugmar Pains da Silva, and Waldo Pinheiro Troy alongside the redescription of Hypostomus latirostris.Pfeil, Friedrich & München, • & Zawadzki, Cláudio & Silva, Hugmar & Troy, Waldo. (2018). Redescription of Hypostomus latirostris (Regan, 1904) with the recognition of a new species of Hypostomus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the upper rio Paraguay basin, Brazil. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters. 28. 10.23788/IEF-1079. FishBase does not list this species.
Etymology The fish is named in honor of Brazilian ichthyologist Erasmo Renesto, of the Universidade Estadual de Maringá, because of his contributions to the genetics of neotropical fishes.
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