Global InformationYaluwak information
| Yaluwak | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Loricariidae |
| Genus: | Yaluwak Lujan, Armbruster & Werneke, 2020 |
| Species: | Y. primus
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| Binomial name | |
| Yaluwak primus Lujan, Armbruster & Werneke, 2020
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Yaluwak is a genus of armored catfish native to South America where they are only known from Guyana, containing only a single species Yaluwak primus. It was first described in a 2020 study and placed within the tribe Ancistrini.[1]
- ^ Nathan K. Lujan; Jonathan W. Armbruster; David C. Werneke; Túlio Franco Teixeira; Nathan R. Lovejoy (2020). "Phylogeny and biogeography of the Brazilian–Guiana Shield endemic Corymbophanes clade of armoured catfishes (Loricariidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 188 (4): 1213–1235. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz090.