[[Image:Plecostomus 700.jpg|275px|thumb|An adult Common Pleco]] The Plecostomus or Pleco is a general name for a type of nocturnal Fresh water tropical fish belonging to the Armored Catfish Family (biology) (Loricariidae). The name is derived from the species known as the Suckermouth Catfish (''Hypostomus plecostomus''), however, it has since been applied to any of a large number of species that have a similar shape, but vary widely in terms of maximum length, coloration, and certain body features such as the "horns" on the Bristlenose Catfish. Plecos, such as the Common Plecos, are extremely popular in aquaria for its ability to clean tanks by eating algae growth. Fish
Plecostomus and Common Pleco were listed on Wikipedia:Duplicate articles. I merged the articles and then decided they were different and unmerged them. As part of the merge I added Nocturnal from Common Pleco to Plecostomus. Need to check if this is generally applicable. User:RJFJR 05:58, Mar 23, 2005 (UTC) :As the one who created both articles, I ran into the problem where ''Plecostomus'' was popularly used as a generic term to describe a rather large number of fish. Although technically Hypostomus plecostomus is the only fish with ''plecostomus'' in its genus/species, they all seem to be called Plecos. (On a sidenote, I think that in some older classification systems the genus ''Hypostomus'' was referred to as ''plecostomus'', which may be a historical reason for the name being used generically). My second problem was that there is no scientifically defined ''Common Pleco'', but instead many different species are all labeled as such. The Common Pleco article is in some sense a disambiguation page, although since the term is freely used in the aquarium fish trade, it should probably not be a disambiguation page on Wikipedia. I do plan to update these articles with more and/or better information sometime, as I learn more. 13:55, Mar 23, 2005 (UTC)
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[[Image:Plecostomus 700.jpg|275px|thumb|An adult Common Pleco]] The Plecostomus or Pleco is a general name for a type of nocturnal Fresh water tropical fish belonging to the Armored Catfish Family (biology) (Loricariidae). The name is derived from the species known as the Suckermouth Catfish (''Hypostomus plecostomus''), however, it has since been applied to any of a large number of species that have a similar shape, but vary widely in terms of maximum length, coloration, and certain body features such as the "horns" on the Bristlenose Catfish. Plecos, such as the Common Plecos, are extremely popular in aquaria for its ability to clean tanks by eating algae growth. Fish
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Plecostomus and Common Pleco were listed on Wikipedia:Duplicate articles. I merged the articles and then decided they were different and unmerged them. As part of the merge I added Nocturnal from Common Pleco to Plecostomus. Need to check if this is generally applicable. User:RJFJR 05:58, Mar 23, 2005 (UTC) :As the one who created both articles, I ran into the problem where ''Plecostomus'' was popularly used as a generic term to describe a rather large number of fish. Although technically Hypostomus plecostomus is the only fish with ''plecostomus'' in its genus/species, they all seem to be called Plecos. (On a sidenote, I think that in some older classification systems the genus ''Hypostomus'' was referred to as ''plecostomus'', which may be a historical reason for the name being used generically). My second problem was that there is no scientifically defined ''Common Pleco'', but instead many different species are all labeled as such. The Common Pleco article is in some sense a disambiguation page, although since the term is freely used in the aquarium fish trade, it should probably not be a disambiguation page on Wikipedia. I do plan to update these articles with more and/or better information sometime, as I learn more. 13:55, Mar 23, 2005 (UTC)
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