Jon Armbruster's Loricariid Home Page
These pages are designed to act as a means to identify the genera of the subfamilies Neoplecostominae and Hypostominae as well as an undescribed subfamily. This encompasses a majority of the genera of Loricariidae and includes all of the genera typically sold in the aquarium trade under the name pleco or plecostomus. The primary emphasis of these pages is on the Hypostominae (sensu Armbruster, 1997) which includes the former Ancistrinae and excludes Delturus, Hemipsilichthys, Isbrueckerichthys, Kronichthys, Pareiorhina, and Upsilodus.