title: Armoured catfish
text: # Armoured catfish
  
  Armoured catfish may refer to:
  
  * Family Loricariidae: The armoured suckermouth catfish, also known as suckermouth catfish, armoured catfish or simply 'plecs' or 'plecos'
  * Family Callichthyidae: armoured catfish, includes the genera
     * Corydoras, sometimes referred to as armoured catfish
     * Callichthys, known as the armoured catfish
     * Hoplosternum, known as the brown hoplo, cascadura or armoured catfish and in Guyana it's called Hassa.
  * Callichthys callichthys, a species popular in the aquarium trade, common name 'armoured catfish'
  * The thorny catfishes, Doradidae, are also sometimes referred to as armoured catfish
  