Top 12 popular varieties of Pleco Fish / Crocodile Fish /Sucker catFish

                                          Pleco fish

        Pleco fishes are one of the most loved ornamental fish sold around the world. In some part of the world, it is often known as the crocodile fish due to resemblance of its body structure with that of a crocodile. Pleco fishes blongs to the catfish family although it looks completely different from the other fishes belonging to the catfish group. Scientific name of the pleco fish is Hypostomus plecostomus and it belongs to the class actinopterigaii. within this class, it belongs to the order siluriformes sharing the order with other catfishes such as the wallago attu, Heteropneustes fosillis etc.        

             This fish is native to the south america but it is more or less found around the whole world covering almost all the continents. This fish is somehow considered as an invasive species by the scientist in certain country as its availability in the natural waterbodies are found to be detrimental to the native fish specieses of the locality. 

   There are many varieties of pleco fishes but here are some top 12 most popular varieties mentioned below.

1.Tiger Pleco

2. Gold nugget Pleco

3. Blue eyed Pleco

4. butterfly Pleco

5. Green Phantom Pleco

6. Leopard frog Pleco

7. Bistled nose Pleco

8. Magnum Pleco

9. Peppermint Pleco

10. Royal Pleco

11. Snowball Pleco

12. Zebra Pleco

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