''Hypancistrus lunaorum'' is a species of
armored catfish endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...
to
Venezuela
Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...
where it occurs in the
Orinoco River
The Orinoco () is one of the longest rivers in South America at . Its drainage basin, sometimes known as the Orinoquia, covers , with 76.3 percent of it in Venezuela and the remainder in Colombia. It is the fourth largest river in the wor ...
.
References
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Ancistrini
Fish of Venezuela
Endemic fauna of Venezuela
Taxa named by Jonathan W. Armbruster
Taxa named by Nathan Keller Lujan
Taxa named by Donald Charles Taphorn Baechle
Fish described in 2007
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