Itiquira

Aspidoras taurus is a small armoured catfish known only from the upper Itiquira and Taquari rivers, in the rio Paraguay system of Mato Grosso, Brazil. Relatively common in the aquarium trade, it is sometimes mislabelled as A. menezesi, a valid but distinct species. Thick skin covering the infraorbitals, preopercle and reduced nuchal plate separates it from congeners.