''Parotocinclus eppleyi'' is a

fish Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups. Approximately 95% of li ...

in the

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Loricariidae native to

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. It is found swimming in the upper and middle portions of the Rio Orinoco. This species reaches a length of . The fish is named in honor of Capt.

Marion Eppley Marion Eppley (19 June 1883, West Orange, New Jersey – 22 November 1960, Oyster Bay, New York) was an American physical chemist. Biography Eppley received from Princeton University his B.S. in 1906, M.A. in 1912, and Ph.D. in 1919. He married ...

(1883–1960), the founder of the Eppley Foundation for Research in New York, for its financial support of the authors’ 1989–1991 collecting efforts in Venezuela, which led to the discovery of this species.

References

*Schaefer, S.A. and F. Provenzano, 1993. The Guyana Shield Parotocinclus: systematic, biogeography, and description of a new Venezuelan species (Siluroidei: Loricariidae). Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwat. 4(1):39–56. Otothyrinae Suckermouth catfish of Brazil Taxa named by Scott Allen Schaefer Taxa named by Francisco Provenzano-Rizzi Fish described in 1993 {{Otothyrinae-stub