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Teleostei (teleosts) > Siluriformes (Catfishes) > Trichomycteridae (Pencil or parasitic catfishes) > Copionodontinae
Etymology: Glaphyropoma:Greek, glaphyros, a-, -on = cut, excellent, select + Greek, poma = cover (Ref. 45335); spinosum:The name spinosum is Latin for prickly, spiny, in allusion to the presence of opercular odontodes in this species, unique within the Copionodontinae..
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