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| Scientific Name | Rineloricaria atratoensis Castellanos-Mejía, Londoño-Burbano, Ochoa, García-Alzate & DoNascimiento, 2024 |
| Common Name | |
| Type Locality | Caño Chageradó, Atrato River basin, Murindó, Antioqui, Colombia, 06°49'56"N, 76°48'31"W, elevation 8 meters. |
| Pronunciation | rhine lor ee kar ee ah. |
| Etymology | Greek, rhinos = nose + Latin, lorica, loricare = cuirass of corslet of leather. The specific epithet is a reference to the type locality, the Atrato River. |
| Species Information | |
| Size | 133mm or 5.2" SL. Find near, nearer or same sized spp. |
| Identification | Rineloricaria atratoensis is distinguished from all trans-Andean and Central American congeners by having the first (unbranched) ray of dorsal, pectoral, and pelvic fins extended as a short filament (vs. coterminous with branched rays), and from all of these species except R. magdalenae by having a paired deep depression between the nostrils and the interorbital region. |
| Sexing | Adult males have hypertrophied odontodes on the sides of their head and on the dorsum of pectoral fins. |
| Habitat Information | |
| Distribution | South America: Atrato River basin, Colombia. Amazon, Upper Amazon, Marañón, Upper Marañón, Santiago, Zamora (click on these areas to find other species found there) Colombia Caribbean Rivers, Atrato (click on these areas to find other species found there) Login to view the map. |
| IUCN Red List Category | Not Evaluated |
| Husbandry Information | |
| Breeding | In captivity, most Rineloricaria will spawn in open ended tubes. |
| Breeding Reports | There is no breeding report. |
| Further Information | |
| Reference | Ichthyology & Herpetology v. 112 (no. 3), pp 430, Figs. 1A, 2. |
| Registered Keepers | There is no registered keeper. |
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| LFS label creator ARN ref:1.4.43.3993 | |
| Last Update | 2025 Jan 19 05:15 (species record created: 2011 Sep 24 05:48) |