''Isorineloricaria acuarius'' is a
species of
catfish in the family
Loricariidae. It is native to
South America, where it occurs in the
Apure River
The Apure River is a river of southwestern Venezuela, formed by the confluence of the Sarare and Uribante near Guasdualito, in Venezuela, at , and flowing across the Llanos into the Orinoco. It provides significant transportation in the area.
Orig ...
basin in
Venezuela. The species reaches at least 26.9 cm (10.6 inches) in
standard length
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Overall length
* Standard length (SL) is the length of a fish m ...
. It was described in 2016 as part of a taxonomic review of the genera ''
Aphanotorulus
''Aphanotorulus'' is a genus of armored catfishes native to the Amazon, Orinoco, Essequibo and Jaguaribe basins in South America.Ray, C.K. & Armbruster, J.W. (2016): The genera ''Isorineloricaria'' and ''Aphanotorulus'' (Siluriformes: Loricar ...
'' and ''
Isorineloricaria'' conducted by Jonathan W. Armbruster (of
Auburn University
Auburn University (AU or Auburn) is a public land-grant research university in Auburn, Alabama. With more than 24,600 undergraduate students and a total enrollment of more than 30,000 with 1,330 faculty members, Auburn is the second largest uni ...
) and C. Keith Ray.
[Ray, C. K., & Armbruster, J. W. (2016). The genera Isorineloricaria and Aphanotorulus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) with description of a new species. ''Zootaxa'', ''4072''(5), 501–539. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4072.5.1] FishBase
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References
Hypostominae
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