“…Studies addressing population and reproductive aspects of this family of fish have been conducted in several Brazilian basins, focusing on several species such as Rhinelepis aspera Spix & Agassiz, 1829 (Agostinho et al, 1987;Agostinho et al, 1990), Hypostomus commersonii Valenciennes, 1836 (Agostinho et al, 1991), Rineloricaria latirostris (Boulenger, 1900) (Barbieri, 1994), Hypostomus ancistroides (Ihering, 1911) (Viana et al, 2008), Pareiorhina rudolphi (Miranda Ribeiro, 1911) (Braga et al, 2009), among others. Studies conducted on the genus Loricariichthys have focused primarily on L. anus (Valenciennes, 1835), L. platymetopon Isbrücker & Nijssen, 1979(Tos et al, 1997Querol et al, 2002;Marcucci et al, 2005;Bailly et al, 2011) and L. spixii (Steindachner 1881) (Duarte & Araújo, 2001).…”