Aphanotorulus gomesi[1] is a species of catfish in the family Loricariidae.

It is native to South America, where it occurs in the Jaguaribe River basin.

[3] In 2004, Jonathan W. Armbruster classified the species within Hypostomus instead of Squaliforma.

[4] In 2016, following a review of Isorineloricaria and Aphanotorulus by C. Keith Ray and Armbruster (both of Auburn University), the species was reclassified as a member of Aphanotorulus, although FishBase still lists the species as Squaliforma gomesi.

[4][2] The fish is named in honor Alcides Lourenço Gomes (1916–1991) of the Estacão Experimental de Caça e Pesca in São Paulo, Brazil, who informed Fowler that the previous name for this fish, Plecostomus iheringi Fowler 1941 , is preoccupied by P. (=Hypostomus) iheringii Regan 1908 [5]