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[EN] A new species of Loricariidae discovered thanks to Amazon Fish project

A new species of the genus Rineloricaria was described from the upper Vaupés River, upper Amazon basin, in Colombia, by members of the Amazon Fish consortium.
This study increases to four the number of species of Rineloricaria for the Amazon Basin in Colombia and shows how the taxon richness of this genus is underestimated, several new species are still to be described.
Published in Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, sept. 2018