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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. 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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| Spotters | Spotted this species somewhere? Click the binoculars! There is no record of this fish being seen. |
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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) |