Cetopsorhamdia orinoco is a species of three-barbeled catfishes native to the Napo River basin in Ecuador and Orinoco River basin in Venezuela. [2] This species reaches a length of 5.4 cm (2.1 in). [3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Heptapteridae |
| Genus: | Cetopsorhamdia |
| Species: | C. orinoco
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| Binomial name | |
| Cetopsorhamdia orinoco L. P. Schultz, 1944
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Etymology
editThe fish is named named for the Río Orinoco system. [4]
References
edit- ^ DoNascimiento, CD, Herrera-Collazos, E.E.; Mojica, J.I.; Rodríguez-Olarte, D.; Taphorn, D.C.; Usma, S. (2022). "Cetopsorhamdia orinoco". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2022: e.T49830609A176004607. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-2.RLTS.T49830609A176004607.en. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Bockmann, F.A. and G.M. Guazzelli, 2003. Heptapteridae (Heptapterids). p. 406-431. In R.E. Reis, S.O. Kullander and C.J. Ferraris, Jr. (eds.) Checklist of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America. Porto Alegre: EDIPUCRS, Brasil.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Cetopsorhamdia orinoco". FishBase. February 2015 version.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order SILURIFORMES: Families HEPTAPTERIDAE, PHREATOBIIDAE, PIMELODIDAE and PSEUDOPIMELODIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
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